Key result
A retrospective hospital record-based frailty assessment tool predicted prolonged hospitalization, nonhome discharge, 30-day readmission, 30-day mortality, and increased hospital cost.
Why the study?
Does presurgical frailty assessment predict adverse outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery?
Does presurgical frailty assessment predict adverse outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery?
Presurgical frailty assessment can independently predict adverse outcomes and increased costs in cardiac surgery patients.
Past research has highlighted frailty assessment as a means of identifying who may be at an increased risk of poor outcomes associated with the stress of cardiac surgery.1 In the December 2021 issue of JTCVS Open, Sarkar and colleagues2 build on this knowledge using a retrospective hospital record-based frailty assessment of 3463 cardiac surgery patients. Independent of the traditional metric of age, the generated tool predicted prolonged hospitalization, nonhome discharge, 30-day readmission, 30-day mortality, and increased hospital cost.
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Hay et al. (2022) conducted an editorial in Cardiac surgery (n=3,463). Retrospective hospital record-based frailty assessment was evaluated on Prolonged hospitalization, nonhome discharge, 30-day readmission, 30-day mortality, and increased hospital cost. A retrospective hospital record-based frailty assessment tool predicted prolonged hospitalization, nonhome discharge, 30-day readmission, 30-day mortality, and increased hospital cost.
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