Why the study?
Is frailty associated with complications and failure to rescue after inpatient surgery?
Is frailty associated with complications and failure to rescue after inpatient surgery?
Preoperative frailty assessment can help refine surgical risk estimates for complications and failure to rescue across various surgical risk levels.
May inform frailty-based risk stratification across procedure risks; extends dose-response data yet leaves causal effects and interventions open.
Frailty has a dose-response association with complications and FTR, which is apparent after low-risk and high-risk inpatient surgery. Systematic assessment of frailty in preoperative patients may help refine estimates of surgical risk that could identify patients who might benefit from perioperative interventions designed to enhance physiologic reserve and potentially mitigate aspects of procedural risk, and would provide a framework for shared decision-making regarding the value of a given surgical procedure.
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Shah et al. (2018) studied this question.
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