ICU sedation, delirium & recovery
Frailty and one year survival in patients admitted to the intensive care unit following a medical emergency team review: a retrospective registry-based study
Authors' conclusion
In this large cohort of ICU patients admitted after a MET review, frailty was independently associated with higher one-year mortality, with outcomes worsening progressively with incrementing CFS.
Study context
- Population
- Adults (≥16 years) admitted to 184 intensive care unit (ICUs) after a ward medical emergency team (MET) review, 1 January 2018–30 June 2022, with a documented Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) score (ANZICS Adult Patient Database)
- Participants
- 48,425 adults · 184 ICUs
- Exposure
- Clinical Frailty Scale categories 2–8 vs CFS-1
- Outcome
- One-year mortality
- Follow-up
- One year
Methodological detailsmultivariable hierarchical logistic regression, linkage with national death registries
- Multivariable hierarchical logistic regression
- Linkage with national death registries
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
One-year mortality (adjusted)
Adjusted attributable mortality risk
+5.6%
95% CI 2.8–8.4%
CFS-2
Adjusted attributable mortality risk
+48.5%
95% CI 43.6–53.4%
CFS-8
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Frailty and one year survival in patients admitted to the intensive care unit following a medical emergency team review: a retrospective registry-based study. Resuscitation. Published 4 February 2026. doi:10.
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