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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Anesthesiol Rep. 2020 Mar 4;10(2):185–195. doi: 10.1007/s40140-020-00377-7

Table 1:

Fried criteria to assess frailty (adapted from Graham et al.)[11]

Dimension: Measure:
Activity Minnesota Leisure Time Activity Questionnaire revealing energy expenditure <383 kcal/week (men) or <270 kcal/week (women) respectively.
Self-reported exhaustion “I could not get going in the last week” or “I felt that everything I did was an effort in the last week”
Slowness Walking <15 feet in 6-7 seconds
Weakness BMI and gender-stratified cutoffs
Weight loss Unintentional loss of >10 lbs over the past year

Abbreviations: kcal: kilocalories, BMI: Body Mass Index