Does frailty impact cost and hospital income in elective surgical patients?
Frailty is associated with increased costs and reduced hospital income in elective surgery patients, independent of age.
Although a significant number of data exist on the impact of frailty in the surgical patient, the economic impacts have only limited description in the literature. Here we demonstrate that frailty, independent of age, has a detrimental financial impact on cost and hospital income in elective surgery.
Wilkes et al. (Sun,) studied this question.
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