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 THE ELECTRONIC FRAILTY INDEX BASED ON THE COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT: DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING

Betty Chinda,1 Katayoun Sepehri,2 Macy Zou,2 Mckenzie Braley,2 Antonina Garm,3 Grace Park,4 Kenneth Rockwood,5 and Xiaowei Song2, ''1. Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, 2. Health Research and Innovation, Surrey Memorial Hospital, Fraser Health Authority, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, 3. Community Actions and Resources Empowering Seniors, Fraser Health Authority, British Columbia, Canada, Canada, 4. Community Actions and Resources Empowering Seniors, Fraser Health Authority, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, 5. Division of Geriatric Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada''

Frailty is characterized by loss of biological reserves across multiple systems and associated with increased risks of adverse outcomes. A Frailty Index (FI) constructed using items from the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) has been validated in geriatric medicine settings to estimate the level of frailty. Traditionally, the CGA used a paper form and the CGA-based FI calculation was a manual process. Here, we reported building of an electronic version of the assessment on personal computers (PC), i.e., standalone eFI-CGA, to benefit frailty assessment at points of care. The eFI-CGA