Engaging clinicians and patients to assess and improve frailty measurement in adults with end stage renal disease

BMC Nephrology

Table 2 Clinician and patient opinions on frailty in adults with ESRD and on intradialytic interventions

	% Clinicians in first survey	% Clinicians in second survey	% Patients
Are ESRD patients more likely to be frail than healthy adults?
More likely	97.6	*	61.8
Less likely	0	*	9.13
About the same	2.4	*	29.0
Relevance of frailty component
Weight loss	80.0	71.4	61.6
Walking speed	92.5	94.3	51.2
Physical activity	100	*	67.0
Weak Strength	97.5	100	81.2
Exhaustion	100	*	80.0
Opinions on Interventions to improve frailty
Patients would be interested in foot peddlers	69.2	*	62.5
Foot peddlers would make patients less frail	83.3	*	79.7
Opinions on prehabilitation to improve frailty
Patients would be interested in prehabilitation	97.1	*	80.2
Prehabilitation would make ESRD patients less frail	97.1	*	84.5
Prehabilitation would help ESRD patients	100	*	93.8

^*Questions on the relevance of frailty components were only included in the second survey of clinicians if there was not total agreement in the first survey. Questions on interventions, prehabilitation and prevalence of frailty in ESRD patients were not included in the second survey due to consensus and moderate consensus (>60% agreement) reached in the first survey

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