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| Title |
Identifying frailty in primary care: a qualitative description of family physicians’ gestalt impressions of their older adult patients
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| Published in |
BMC Primary Care, May 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12875-018-0743-4 |
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| Authors |
Clara Korenvain, Ida-Maisie Famiyeh, Sheila Dunn, Cynthia R. Whitehead, Paula A. Rochon, Lisa M. McCarthy |
| Abstract |
Many tools exist to guide family physicians' impressions about frailty status of older adults, but no single tool, instrument, or set of criteria has emerged as most useful. The role of physicians' subjective impressions in frailty decisions has not been studied. This study explores how family physicians conceptualize frailty, and the factors that they consider when making subjective decisions about patients' frailty statuses. Descriptive qualitative study of family physicians who practice in a large urban academic family medicine center as they participated in one-on-one "think-aloud" interviews about the frailty status of their patients aged 80 years and over. Of 23 eligible family physicians, 18 shared their impressions about the frailty status of their older adult patients and the factors influencing their decisions. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and thematically analyzed. Four themes were identified, the first of which described how physicians conceptualized frailty as a spectrum and dynamic in nature, but also struggled to conceptualize it without a formal definition in place. The remaining three themes described factors considered before determining patients' frailty statuses: physical characteristics (age, weight, medical conditions), functional characteristics (physical, cognitive, social) and living conditions (level of independence, availability of supports, physical environment). Family physicians viewed frailty as multifactorial, dynamic, and inclusive of functional and environmental factors. This conceptualization can be useful to make comprehensive and flexible evaluations of frailty status in conjunction with more objective frailty tools. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 35 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 9 | 26% |
| Canada | 6 | 17% |
| Spain | 3 | 9% |
| Australia | 2 | 6% |
| France | 2 | 6% |
| Italy | 1 | 3% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 11 | 31% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 22 | 63% |
| Scientists | 8 | 23% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 66 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 66 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 9 | 14% |
| Other | 6 | 9% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 20% |
| Unknown | 22 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 15 | 23% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 12 | 18% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 3 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 5% |
| Psychology | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 9 | 14% |
| Unknown | 21 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 May 2019.
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#2,153,732
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#239
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#43,908
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#5
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