Frailty is an important determinant of health-care needs and outcomes for hospitalised older adults.
This presentation will focus on the development and validation of a multidomain frailty index using routine hospital data across six NSW hospitals.
Dr Kenji will outline the specific calculation methodology of the frailty index and discuss its characteristics and predictive ability in older patients.
He will also discuss methodological challenges in real-time frailty assessment, including appropriate retrospective periods for past admission data, deficit variability during hospitalisation, and feature importance of individual deficits.
Understanding these factors may enhance clinical approaches to identifying and managing frail older adults in hospital settings.
Learn more about the speaker
Dr. Kenji Fujita is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Ageing and Pharmacology, Kolling Institute, University of Sydney.
His research focuses on evaluating interventions for deprescribing inappropriate polypharmacy in older inpatients, developing a multidomain frailty index using routinely collected clinical data, and investigating the impact of deprescribing on physical functions in older mice with polypharmacy using neural network models.
Since 2020, he has served as the working group co-lead on guidelines and indicators within the Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe (PCNE).
With expertise in big data analysis, epidemiology, statistical modelling, and web application development, he has co-led a Japanese government funded project developing and validating quality indicators for community pharmacies (2024-2026).
This webinar is facilitated by Frailty Nexus, the AFN’s peer-support network..
