en statistics statistics Original Article Original Article <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="line-height:14pt"><span new="" roman="" times=""><b><i><span style="color:blue">Background</span></i></b><i><span style="color:blue">:</span></i> Preventing dependency is a public health objective. We want to evaluate the ability of the &ldquo;Zulfiqar Frailty Scale&rdquo; (ZFS) tool to detect frailty as defined by Fried&#39;s criteria among a group of patients aged 75 and older.<span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></span></span><br> <span style="line-height:14pt"><span new="" roman="" times=""><b><i><span style="color:blue">Methods</span></i></b><i><span style="color:blue">:</span></i> Prospective study conducted in Poitou-Charentes (France) for 12 months on patients aged 75 and over and considered autonomous in terms of the ADL scale. To be eligible, the patients could not reside in a nursing home and needed an ADL score of 4 or higher.<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></i></span></span><br> <span style="line-height:14pt"><span new="" roman="" times=""><b><i><span style="color:blue">Results</span></i></b><i><span style="color:blue">:</span></i> Among the group of 200 patients (with a mean age of 81.4 years, +/- 4.82), the prevalence of frailty according to Fried&#39;s criteria was 32.5%. The prevalence of frailty according to the &ldquo;Zulfiqar Frailty Scale&rdquo; tool was 35.0% and all items except home confinement were significantly associated with frailty. With this tool, the threshold for identifying frailty was 3 out of 6 criteria. It was quick (average completion time of 2 minutes and 2 seconds) with a sensitivity score of 88.0% and a negative predictive value of 91.0%.<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></i></span></span><br> <span style="line-height:14pt"><span new="" roman="" times=""><b><i><span style="color:blue">Conclusion</span></i></b><i><span style="color:blue">:</span></i> The &ldquo;Zulfiqar Frailty Scale&rdquo; tool measures frailty just as effectively as Fried&rsquo;s criteria, with sensitivity and negative predictive values no lower than the latter.<b><i><span style="color:#0033cc"></span></i></b></span></span><br> &nbsp;</span></span> frailty, elderly, general medicine, Zulfiqar frailty scale (ZFS) 425 430 http://caspjim.com/browse.php?a_code=A-10-2069-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Abrar-Ahmad Zulfiqar abzulfiqar@gmail.com 100319475328460036339 100319475328460036339 Yes Internal Medicine Unit, Clinique Médicale B, University Hospital of Strasbourg, 67000 Strasbourg, France