Frailty in intensive care medicine must be measured, interpreted and taken into account!

Note: Funding Information: CJ reports that institutional support has been received by the German Research Council (SFB 1116) as well as the State of North Rhine Westphalia (Giga for Health: 5GMedizincampus. NRW, Project number 005-2008-0055). The support of the VIP studies in France by a grant from Fondation Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris pour la recherche is greatly appreciated. In Norway, the VIP studies were supported by a grant from the Health Region West. In addition, the funding was received by a grant from the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) by the European Commission for a study of the VIP project. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, CRC 1116, State Northrhine Westfalia, 005-2008-0055, Assistance Publique—Hôpitaux de Paris, Health Region West, European Open Science Cloud. Funding Information: The following members of the VIP study group were collaborators in this study: Jesper Fjølner (Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Viborg Regional Hospital, Viborg, Denmark); Raphael Romano Bruno (Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Medical Faculty, Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Vascular Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany); Malte Kelm (Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Medical Faculty, Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Vascular Medicine, Duesseldorf, Germany); Michael Beil (Department of Medical Intensive Care, Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel); Sigal Sviri (Department of Medical Intensive Care, Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel); Wojciech Szczeklik (Center for Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland); Susannah Leaver (General Intensive care, St George´s University Hospitals NHS Foundation trust, London, United Kingdom); Dylan W. De Lange (Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center, University Utrecht, the Netherlands).