Development of a cardiac-centered frailty ontology

Table 3 Scores for nine concepts central to the assessment of frailty. Rockwood scores are on a scale of 1 - very fit to 9 – terminally ill. They are averaged across raters. “Will fix” refers to clinical findings that the cardiac intervention will alleviate. Relevance is how important the concept is to decisions about cardiac interventions. L – low, m – medium, h – high

Concept	Rockwood			Will Fix	Relevance
Concept	Able	With Difficulty	Unable	Will Fix	Relevance
ability to run finding	1	3.33	4	M	H
ability to stand finding	2.67	5.11	7.44	TIED L+	H
able to mobilize finding	steady gait 3		unsteady gait 6	M	H
bed-ridden finding	Only level 8			L	H
Paralysis finding	Paraplegic 6		Quadriplegic 8	L	TIED M+
wheelchair bound finding	Only level 6			M	H
able to perform dressing activity finding	3	4	7	L	H
able to perform personal grooming activity finding	1	4	7	L	H
ability to participate in leisure activities finding	2	3	5.5	H	H

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