Table 3.

Correlation of patient variables to the level of frailty as measured by the Clinical Frailty Scale

Variable	Correlation to clinical frailty scale (p value)
Age	0.12 (p = 0.001)
Gender	0.05 (p = 0.2)
Living alone	0.21 (p < 0.001)
Nurses “own” opinion of frailty	0.56 (p < 0.001)
Barthel Index	−0.80 (p < 0.001)
Cognitive impairment (documented)	0.38 (p < 0.001)
Abbreviated mental test score	0.36 (p < 0.001)
Charlson comorbidity index	0.29 (p < 0.001)
Total number of medications	0.25 (p < 0.001)
No of hospital admissions in the last year	0.19 (P < 0.001)
Receiving home help (any type)	0.32 (p < 0.001)
RISC score:
- global risk institutionalisation	0.43 (p < 0.001)
- global risk hospitalisation	0.43 (p < 0.001)
- global risk death	0.35 (p < 0.001)