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Frailty, defined as a state of decreased physiologic reserve, has been correlated with poorer outcomes after hospitalization or surgery. Studies in lung transplant patients have associated frailty with an increased risk of post‐transplant mortality; however, a unified approach is lacking. The identification of frail patients can help clinicians pre‐emptively target modifiable risk factors and may...