Does the Frailty Burden Impact ICU Performance Indicators Benchmarking? A Multicenter Cohort Study Using Two Severity-of-Illness Scores

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This study aims to evaluate how the frailty burden in ICUs affects performance indicators derived from severity-of-illness scores.
Retrospective cohort study using data from 159 ICUs in Brazil and Uruguay.
Analyzed 242,141 patients admitted in 2022-2023, defining frailty with a Modified Frailty Index (MFI) of 3 or higher.
Examined associations between frailty burden and performance indicators using recalibrated SAPS 3 and MPM0-III scores.
Median frailty burden was 23.0%, with a median hospital mortality of 14.8%.
No significant correlation between frailty burden and standardized mortality rate (SMR) or standardized resource use (SRU) for both MPM0-III and SAPS 3.
Recalibration with frailty measures did not enhance performance indicator estimates.

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Retrospective cohort study assesses frailty burden's effect on ICU performance indicators, revealing minimal relevance for benchmarking.

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Bastos et al. (2026) studied this question.

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