Optimising prescribing practices in older adults with multimorbidity: a scoping review of guidelines.

Objective: Inappropriate polypharmacy occurs when multiple medications are prescribed without clear indications or where harms outweigh their benefits. The aims of this scoping review are to (1) identify prescribing guidelines that are available for older adults with multimorbidity and (2) to identify cross-cutting themes used in these guidelines.

Design: Scoping review.

Validating a Standardised Approach in Administration of the Clinical Frailty Scale in Hospitalised Older Adults.

Introduction: We developed a Clinical Frailty Scale algorithm (CFS-A) to minimise inter-rater variability and to facilitate wider application across clinical settings. We compared the agreement, diagnostic performance and predictive utility of CFS-A against standard CFS.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively analysed data of 210 hospitalised older adults (mean age, 89.