Table 3.
Items | Score |
|
---|---|---|
Yes | No | |
1. Presence of cognitive impairment (disorientation, diagnosis of dementia, or delirium) | 2 | 0 |
2. Lives alone or no caregiver available, willing, or able | 1 | 0 |
3. Difficulty with walking or transfers or fall(s) in the past 6 months | 1 | 0 |
4. Hospitalized in the last 3 months | 1 | 0 |
5. Polypharmacy: ≥5 medications | 1 | 0 |
Total score | 0–6 | |
abnormal if ≥2 within the geriatric population and ≥1 within the oncologic population |
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