An electronic medical record-based frailty index as a locally constructed composite risk score associated with septic shock and mortality in older patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
OBJECTIVE The clinical and economic burden of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is high and increases with age. Current prognostic scores perform poorly in older adults, and additional markers for risk stratification need to be identified for older patients with CAP. This study aimed to examine the associations betwee...