Zulfiqar Frailty Scale: Overview, Stakes, and Possibilities

Abstract

Very few frailty scales are used by general practitioners, as they are time consuming and cumbersome. We developed a frailty screening tool for use in primary care, referred to as the Zulfiqar Frailty Scale (ZFS). This scale was tested in multiple general practitioners’ offices in France, and these studies were published. In this paper, we offer a summary of these results.

Keywords

• Zulfiqar Frailty Scale (ZFS)
• frailty syndrome
• primary care