To request a license and obtain an official copy of the EFS and training materials, please contact Joanna Preston at jpreston@ualberta.ca
What are the copyright expectations?
We ask that all researchers and clinicians respect the copyright of the EFS as follows:
Edmonton Frail Scale, copyright 2000. All rights reserved. The EFS may not be copied, published, distributed, reproduced, translated, or modified in any way in whole or in part without express permission from the University of Alberta.
Any publications that use the Edmonton Frail Scale should cite it as follows:
Rolfson DB, Majumdar SR, Tsuyuki RT, Tahir A, Rockwood K Validity and Reliability of the Edmonton Frail Scale. Age and Ageing 2006 Sep;35(5):526-9.
What kind of a license would we need?
Our goal has always been to make the EFS available free of charge for routine clinical use and research with smaller numbers of subjects. In order to recover costs for the production and maintenance of our website and training materials, and to allow ongoing investigation and improvements in the EFS, we do require fees for research involving larger numbers of subjects, research that is sponsored by industry, and when the EFS is intended to be built into health networks.
Before requesting a license, researchers may wish to clarify the following:
Sample size – proposed number of research subjects (≤100, 100-500, >500)
Whether the research is an industry sponsored clinical trial
Whether you will need versions of the EFS in a language other than English
If you need to confirm whether your institution already has a license, please contact us.
If researchers wish to reproduce anything from the 2006 publication in Age and Ageing, aside from the official version of the Edmonton Frail Scale itself or the associated training materials, they must contact Oxford University Press to obtain permission at journals.permissions@oup.com
How do we obtain a translation of the EFS?
Currently, the EFS is available in English, French, Spanish and Mandarin. No additional fee is charged for these versions.
If the researchers propose that the EFS be translated, the license may be modified to allow them to carry out that translation according to mutually agreeable conditions. In this case, there would be a reduction in the fee, or it may be waived.
Would we need to pay a fee?
As indicated above, a fee applies in research that involves larger numbers of subjects, is industry-sponsored, or involves a health network rather than a single clinician for routine use. Fee reductions are considered when the researchers provide for translation services. It may also be considered when research is being conducted in collaboration with our team at the University of Alberta.
