Frailty defined by deficit accumulation and geriatric medicine defined by frailty.

By Kenneth Rockwood, Arnold Mitnitski. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2011

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Accumulating deficits model of frailty and postoperative mortality and morbidity: its application to a national database. (2013, neutral): “[14] Rockwood K, Mitnitski A.”
Association of frailty with survival: a systematic literature review. (2013, methodology): “In contrast, the frailty index is based on risk ccumulation theory (Rockwood and Mitnitski, 2011).”
Frailty Assessment in the Cardiovascular Care of Older Adults (2013, background): “The aforementioned tools reflect the clinical phenotype of frailty; another school of thought reflects the accumulation of deficits (33).”
Cellular senescence and the senescent secretory phenotype: therapeutic opportunities. (2013, neutral): “25, 27, 28) who are about to undergo medical procedures that increase inflammation and/or cellular senescence and that might push subjects into overt frailty or delirium.”
Frailty syndrome: an overview (2014, positive): “The total number of deficits that can be used in the FI is considered to be 80, with 30–70 items being typically counted.(19) Compared to the FP definition described earlier, the FI appears to be a more sensitive predictor of adverse health outcomes, because of its more finely graded risk scale and ”