The at-point CFS measurement for inpatients was performed by experienced geriatric nurses on the day after admission to the geriatric department. In the emergency room, the at-point CFS was measured by emergency room nurses. We used the Korean-translated version of the CFS 2.0 and a classification tree with established construct validity in the Korean geriatric outpatients21) and accuracy for predicting adverse outcomes in hospitalized older patients.22) The Korean-translated version of the CFS 2.0 and classification tree are described in Supplementary Figs. S1 and S2, respectively.
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