Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Interrater reliability of the Clinical Frailty Scale in the anesthesia preadmission clinic
Main finding · Interrater agreement on CFSResult — go to the resultKappa 0.70 95% CI 0.63–0.77Authors' conclusion
This study suggests that CFS assessment by either anesthesiologists or nursing staff is reliable across a population of patients from a range of surgical specialities, with an acceptable degree of agreement.
Study context
- Population
- Elective surgical patients aged ≥ 65 yr, anesthesia preadmission clinic of a large regional university-affiliated hospital in Australia, July 2020–February 2021
- Participants
- 238 patients
- Exposure
- Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) scored by perioperative nurses vs anesthesiologists
- Outcome
- Interrater reliability of CFS frailty classification (Cohen's kappa)
Methodological detailsinterrater reliability, single-centre
- Interrater reliability
- Single-centre
Main finding
Interrater agreement on CFS
Kappa
0.70
95% CI 0.63–0.77
P < 0.001
As reported in the abstract
- Perfect agreement on CFS score, patients (%)
- 112 (47%)
- Differing by only one point, patients (%)
- 99 (42%)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Interrater reliability of the Clinical Frailty Scale in the anesthesia preadmission clinic. Can J Anaesth. Published 7 November 2023. doi:10.
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