Assessment of frailty by paramedics using the clinical frailty scale - an inter-rater reliability and accuracy study.

"open access funding provided by university of geneva data availability the dataset supporting the conclusions of this article is available in the open science framework repository [10 17605/osf io/4etpv]. data availability the dataset supporting the conclusions of this article is available in the open science framework"

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe study was conducted at Geneva University Hospitals in accordance with Good Clinical Practice (Declaration of Helsinki 2002). This study was considered to fall outside the scope of Swiss human research legislation (Federal Act on Research involving Human Beings Art 2), therefore approval from a local ethics committee was not required. Only data from paramedics who accepted their use for research purposes were included. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Previous studyThe main author is also the first author of a study (under review) with a very similar design and identical statistical analysis process that was performed to assess a paediatric triage scale. It might explain the similar structure and method description between both articles. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding No specific funding was needed for this study. Open access funding provided by University of Geneva"

"Registration: This study was registered on the Open Science Framework registries (10.17605/OSF.IO/VDUZY)."