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Frailty rather than chronological age determines outcomes for elderly patients undergoing emergency general surgery.
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May support frailty screening over age for risk stratification in elderly emergency surgery; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
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Joseph et al. (2014) studied this question. Frailty status, rather than chronological age, is the critical determinant of outcomes for elderly patients undergoing emergency general surgery.
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