Preoperative frailty predicts adverse postoperative outcomes. Recommendations for
preoperative assessment of elderly patients include performing a frailty assessment. Despite …

Background Preoperative frailty predicts adverse postoperative outcomes. Despite the
advantages of incorporating frailty assessment into surgical settings, there is limited …

Background Frailty is an emerging concept in modern general surgery because of its
correlation with adverse outcomes. More frail older patients are undergoing general surgery …

Purpose General surgical procedures are among the most commonly performed operations
in the United States. Despite advances in surgical and anesthetic techniques and …

Background Frailty is a frequent and underdiagnosed functional syndrome involving
reduced physiological reserves and an increased vulnerability against stressors, with severe …

Frailty is an age-related, multi-dimensional state of decreased physiologic reserve that
results in diminished resiliency and increased vulnerability to stressors. It has proven to be …

Purpose Screening for frailty in people admitted with emergency surgical pathology can
initiate timely referrals to enhanced perioperative services such as intensive care and …

Introduction: Surgical decision-making in the elderly can be difficult because of the lack of
reliable predictors of outcome. In non-surgical populations, frailty is increasingly being …

BACKGROUND: Preoperative risk assessment is important yet inexact in older patients
because physiologic reserves are difficult to measure. Frailty is thought to estimate …

The elderly population in the United States is increasing exponentially in tandem with risk for
frailty. Frailty is described by a clinically significant state where a patient is at risk for …