Table 2.

Frequency of Details Provided for Definitions of Frailty in Abstracts Using Fried or Rockwood

	Fried N=167	Rockwood* - used as a categorical variable N=68	Rockwood* - used as a continuous variable N=35
1. Included details on variables (%)	42.9	14.7	28.6
2. Specified number of variables in the definition (%)	39.9	45.6	51.4
3. Any detail of frailty categories (%)	45.8	51.5	20.0
Specific cutoff mentioned (%)	26.3	41.2	N/A
Abstract with information in all three categories (%)	24.4	5.9	5.7
Abstract with information on two of three criteria (%)	17.8	30.9	31.4

*2 abstracts used Rockwood as both categorical and continuous and were therefore counted twice.