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¹Alexandre Campeau Calfat, Université Laval, Faculté de pharmacie, Québec, Canada, alcac7@ulaval.ca.

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Administrative databases can identify frailty in older adults using specific tools. These methods aid in population surveillance and predicting adverse events, advancing geriatric research.

Keywords:

Frailty administrative database older adults

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Gerontology and Public Health
Utilizing big-data analytics in healthcare research
Population health surveillance methodologies

Background:

Frailty, a state of vulnerability, poses challenges for population-level assessment despite clinical tools' efficacy in individual care.
Administrative databases offer a valuable resource for medication-based research and large-scale health surveillance.
Existing frailty assessment tools often lack scalability for broad population studies.

Approach:

This narrative scoping review systematically identified and synthesized literature on frailty detection tools within administrative databases.
Focused on community-dwelling older adults, the review examined tools applicable to population-level analysis.
Four distinct tools aligning with the Rockwood and Mitnitski frailty index model were identified.

Key Points:

Four validated frailty assessment tools were identified for use in administrative databases.
Despite variations in incorporated deficits, these tools effectively identify frailty in older populations.
The identified tools demonstrate utility in predicting adverse health events.

Conclusions:

Administrative databases, coupled with validated frailty tools, offer a robust approach for population-level frailty research and surveillance.
These data-driven methods enhance the understanding and management of frailty in community-dwelling older adults.
The findings support the integration of administrative data for proactive geriatric health monitoring.