Healthcare systems need to adapt to better serve an aging population with complex
presentations. Frailty assessments are a potential means to address this heterogeneity in …

With migration of medically complex patients undergoing more extensive surgical
procedures to the ambulatory setting, selecting the appropriate patient is vital. Patient …

BACKGROUND: Both frailty and postoperative delirium (POD) are common in elective
surgical patients 65 years of age and older. However, the association between preoperative …

Objective: To examine geriatric-specific outcomes following implementation of a
multispecialty geriatric surgical pathway (GSP). Background: In 2018, we implemented a …

Objective Advances in ovarian cancer cytoreductive surgery have enabled more extensive
procedures to achieve maximal cytoreduction but with a consequent increase in …

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of geriatric surgical pathway
(GSP) implementation on inpatient cost of care. Background: Achieving high-value care for …

Objective Sarcopenia is an important prognostic consideration in surgical oncology that has
received relatively little attention in brain tumor patients. Temporal muscle thickness (TMT) …

Background Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a cancer arising from the biliary epithelium and
represents the second most common primary liver tumor following hepatocellular carcinoma …

Background This study aims to develop a machine learning-based application in a real-
world medical domain to assist anesthesiologists in assessing the risk of complications in …

Urinary incontinence is a common problem among older adults that is often complicated by
many nuanced ethical considerations. Unfortunately, there is a lack of guidance for …