Importance Frailty is an important risk factor for postoperative mortality. Whether the
association between frailty and mortality is consistent across all surgical specialties …

Prehabilitation is a multimodal concept to improve functional capability prior to surgery, so
that the patients' resilience is strengthened to withstand any peri-and postoperative …

Background: The ability of frailty compared to age alone to predict adverse events in the
surgical management of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy (DCM) has not been defined in …

Purpose To evaluate the independent effect of frailty, as measured by the Risk Analysis
Index-Administrative (RAI-A) for postoperative complications and discharge outcomes …

Importance Recent legislation facilitates veterans' ability to receive non–Veterans Affairs
(VA) surgical care. However, contemporary data comparing the quality and safety of VA and …

BACKGROUND With an aging population, elderly patients with multiple comorbidities are
more frequently undergoing spine surgery and may be at increased risk for complications …

OBJECTIVE Frailty's role in preoperative risk assessment in spine surgery has increased in
association with the increasing size of the aging population. However, previous frailty …

Our group recently examined the associations among preoperative frailty, operative stress,
and postoperative mortality in a retrospective cohort published in JAMA Surgery. 1 Frail and …

Objective To evaluate the role of functional status along with other used clinical factors on
the occurrence of death in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Design Prospective cohort …

Importance Electronic frailty metrics have been developed for automated frailty assessment
and include the Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS), the Electronic Frailty Index (eFI), the 5 …