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Table 7 Diagnostic properties of T-FRAIL, CFS-Thai and ECOG PS for frailty detection using mTFI as the reference standard

From: Translation and validation of the Thai clinical frailty scale and classification tree in older adults

Tool

Cutoff-points

Sensitivity

% (95% CI)

Specificity

% (95% CI)

AUC (95% CI)

Youden Index

p-value

T-FRAIL

≥ 2

70.7 (54.5–83.9)

80.0 (56.3–94.3)

0.75 (0.64–0.87)

50.7

0.001

T-FRAIL

≥ 3

39.0 (24.2–55.5)

100.0 (83.2–100.0)

0.70 (0.62–0.77)

39.0

0.025

CFS-Thai

≥ 4

92.7 (80.1–98.5)

55.0 (31.5–76.9)

0.74 (0.62–0.86)

47.7

< 0.001

CFS-Thai

≥ 5

93.5 (79.3–98.2)

79.3 (61.6–90.2)

0.86 (0.81–0.92)

53.5

< 0.001

ECOG PS

≥ 2

83.9 (67.4–92.9)

93.3 (78.7–98.2)

0.89 (0.82–0.95)

42.5

0.001

ECOG PS

≥ 3

35.5 (21.1–53.1)

96.7 (83.3–99.4)

0.67 (0.59–0.76)

12.5

< 0.001

  1. *All diagnostic performance metrics were calculated in a subset of 61 inpatients with available mTFI scores
  2. Abbreviations: AUC, Area Under the Curve; CI, Confidence Interval; T-FRAIL, Thai version of Simple Frailty Questionnaire; CFS-Thai, Thai version of Clinical Frailty Scale; ECOG PS, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status; mTFI, Modified Thai Frailty Index