Population
98 patients older than 65 admitted to a general surgery ward from the emergency department at Ghent…
Comparison
Frailty (observational predictor) vs Non-frail patients
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
90 days
Authors
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Frailty screening may flag high-risk elderly emergency surgery patients; leaves open whether it improves outcomes or alters management.
Frailty is a strong independent predictor of 90-day mortality in elderly patients undergoing emergency general surgery.
Goeteyn et al. (2017) studied this question.
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