C10021: Standardized Frailty Evaluation Tool for Elderly PatientsNovelty:
Easy to use and implement frailty assessment tool for improved and standardized medical evaluation of the elderly patients.
Value Proposition:
Current standard medical indications do not take account the frailty of older patient, resulting in imprecise assessment of the risk involved with the medical intervention. This invention incorporates standardized frailty assessment through a computer based algorithm, resulting in improved correlation between the medical indication, corresponding treatment and associated risk specific to elderly patients. Other advantages include:
• Easy to use and implement as a software program or an online tool
• Customizable inference validity though opt-in and opt-out option of criteria
• Compatible with the University Health Consortium (UHC) data
• Addresses increasing demand by surgeons for better patient screening / assessment modality
Technical Details:
Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a frailty assessment tool for improved and standardized medical evaluation for geriatric patients. The Frailty Assessment Tool is a software program that can be utilized to calculate a patient/participant’s frailty score. The assessment tool yield better correlation between the physiologic factors that underlie frailty and the relationship between disease, disability and frailty. Currently, this tool uses the Women’s Health and Aging Study (WHAS) criteria by default, but users can be given the option to opt out to the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) criteria if desired.
Looking for Partners:
To develop and commercialize the technology as a tool for frailty screening for elderly patients.
Stage of Development:
Clinically validated
Data Availability:
Under CDA / NDA
Publications/Associated Cases:
Not available at this time
