Assessment of frailty in patients with heart failure: A new Heart Failure Frailty Score developed by Delphi consensus

Abstract Aims The Heart Failure Frailty Score (HFFS) is a novel, multidimensional tool to assess frailty in patients with heart failure (HF). It has been developed to overcome limitations of existing frailty assessment tools while being practical for clinical use. The HFFS reflects the concept of fr...

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Published in:	ESC Heart Failure
Main Authors:	Cristiana Vitale, Emmanuelle Berthelot, Andrew J.S. Coats, Hill Loreena, Nancy M. Albert, Michal Tkaczyszyn, Stamatis Adamopoulos, Lisa Anderson, Markus S. Anker, Stefan D. Anker, Derek Bell, Tuvia Ben‐Gal, Vasiliki Bistola, Biykem Bozkurt, Poppy Brooks, Miguel Camafort, Juan Jesus Carrero, Ovidiu Chioncel, Dong‐Ju Choi, Wook‐Jin Chung, Wolfram Doehner, Daniel Fernández‐Bergés, Roberto Ferrari, Mona Fiuzat, Juan Esteban Gomez‐Mesa, Finn Gustafsson, Ewa Jankowska, Seok‐Min Kang, Koichiro Kinugawa, Kamlesh Khunti, F.D. Richard Hobbs, Christopher Lee, Yuri Lopatin, Matthew Maddocks, Giuseppe Maltese, Elena Marques‐Sule, Yuya Matsue, Òscar Miró, Brenda Moura, Massimo Piepoli, Piotr Ponikowski, Giovanni Pulignano, Amina Rakisheva, Robin Ray, Angela Sciacqua, Petar Seferovic, Trinidad Sentandreu‐Mañó, Shirley Sze, Alan Sinclair, Anna Strömberg, Olga Theou, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Izabella Uchmanowicz, Maria Teresa Vidan, Maurizio Volterrani, Stephan vonHaehling, Byungsu Yoo, Jian Zhang, Yuhui Zhang, Marco Metra, Giuseppe Massimo Claudio Rosano
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wiley 2025-06-01
Subjects:	Heart failure Frailty Management Prognosis Score
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.15187

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