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Top Tips to help you use the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS)

1. It's all about the baseline
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Clinical Frailty Scale ... automatically increase the score ... Dementia doesn't ... Clinical #Frailty #Scale ... #Diagnosis #Management
Rockwood Clinical Frailty Score

There is no single generally accepted clinical definition of frailty. Previously developed tools
Clinical Frailty Score ... active disease symptoms ... #Diagnosis #Geriatrics ... Clinical #Frailty #Scale ... #Score #CFS #Rockwood
Drug Induced Lupus vs SLE
Drug Induced Lupus (DIL):
 • Epidemiology: -10% of all lupus cases, drug-dependent,
Constitutional symptoms ... is rare in DIL, SCLE-DIL ... constitutional symptoms ... comparison #table #rheumatology ... #diagnosis #management
Adult Onset Still's Disease
Systemic inflammation with urticarial rash.
Rash: 
 • Nonpruritic, evanescent (correlates with time of
the chest/trunk Symptoms ... Minor criteria include ... a sore throat, ... #rheumatology # ... management
Sjogren's Syndrome Overview

Epidemiology:
• F > M: 9:1
• 5-6th Decades (can be any age)

Autoimmune exocrinopathy multisystemic disease
Sjogren's Syndrome Diagnosis ... biopsy • Ocular examination ... RTA, TYPE I RTA Diagnosis ... Sjogrens #Syndrome #Rheumatology ... #Diagnosis #Management
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
acute respiratory symptoms ... • Rheumatologic ... MC: CNS CSF: • ... throat, skin, scalp ... #Management #Infections