Approximately 20% of older adults experience persistent functional decline 30 days post-surgery, highlighting the need to address geriatric-specific risk factors.
Supports preoperative geriatric risk assessment in older surgical patients; leaves open whether mitigating identified factors improves functional recovery.
In this study, 1 in 5 older adults experienced a functional decline that persisted 30 days after a surgical procedure, an outcome that appeared to be associated with several geriatric-specific risk factors. Future trials are needed to evaluate whether the prevention or mitigation of these factors can decrease the rates of postoperative functional decline in this patient population.
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