The impact of frailty and delirium on mortality in older inpatients.

Background: delirium and frailty are common among hospitalised older people but delirium is often missed and frailty considered difficult to measure in clinical practice.

Objective: to explore the relationship between delirium and frailty in older inpatients and determine their impact on survival.

Design And Setting: the prospective cohort study of 273 patients aged ≥75 years.