The Feasibility of Deriving the Electronic Frailty Index from Australian General Practice Records.

Purpose: Frailty is a prevalent condition in older adults. Identification of frailty using an electronic Frailty Index (eFI) has been successfully implemented across general practices in the United Kingdom. However, in Australia, the eFI remains understudied.

Clinical and cost-effectiveness of telehealth for Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people: a scoping review.

Objectives: To examine the modalities and clinical and non-clinical effectiveness of telehealth services available to people from Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD).

Materials And Methods: A scoping review of peer-reviewed publications (2000-2021) on the effectiveness of telehealth interventions for Indigenous and CALD groups based on searches of Medline, CINAHL, and PsycInfo and manual searches from reference lists of captured literature reviews.

Results: Of the initial 601 articles, 10 met the inclusion criteria (seven of clinical effectiveness and three of non-clinical effectiveness), with participants from the USA, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, with sample sizes ranging from 19 to 1,665 participants (overall 327 Indigenous and 2,030 CALD patients).

It is feasible to flag 'near end-of-life' status in older patients from routine general practice data.

Method: A retrospective chart review was used to assess the feasibility of identifying these indicators in the data (160,897 patients from 464 practices across Australia). Conditional logistic regression was used to assess the independent contribution of nEOL indicators in patients aged 75-84 and ≥85 years using a case-control design matching by practice.

Results: The strongest indicators for nEOL status were advanced malignancy, residential aged care, nutritional vulnerability, anaemia, cognitive impairment and heart failure.

Comparison of the effectiveness of polyethylene glycol with and without electrolytes in constipation: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.

Background: Polyethylene glycol is commonly used to manage constipation and is available with or without electrolytes. The addition of electrolytes dates back to its initial development as lavage solutions in preparation for gastrointestinal interventions. The clinical utility of the addition of electrolytes to polyethylene glycol for the management of constipation is not established.