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To evaluate the impact of baseline frailty, age, and admission motor impairment on clinical outcomes and complications following traumatic spinal cord injury.

August 13, 2019Journal of NeurotraumaOpen Access

Effect of Frailty on Outcome after Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

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DBDan BanaszekVancouver Coastal Health TITom InglisUniversity College Dublin TMTravis MarionUniversity of Ottawa

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Cohort study demonstrates that frailty predicts hospital stay and complications in younger spinal cord injury patients, highlighting the value of age-specific risk assessment.

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To evaluate the impact of baseline frailty, age, and admission motor impairment on clinical outcomes and complications following traumatic spinal cord injury.
Analyzed data from a prospectively collected database (2004–2016) comprising 634 patients with acute traumatic spinal cord injury (mean age 50.3 years, 77% male).
Evaluated the association of Modified Frailty Index (mFI), admission Total Motor Score (TMS), and age with adverse events, acute length of stay, and in-hospital mortality using multivariable and age-stratified analyses (<60, 61–75, and ≥76 years).
After statistical adjustment, mFI remained an independent predictor of acute length of stay (p = 0.0375), but did not independently predict adverse events (p = 0.1428) or in-hospital mortality (p = 0.1245) across the overall cohort.
Age-stratified analysis revealed that mFI significantly predicted adverse events, length of stay, and in-hospital mortality in patients aged under 60 years, whereas admission TMS predicted outcomes in those aged 61–75, and mFI was not predictive in patients 76 years and older.

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Banaszek et al. (2019) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aadd70018b933a1ff95a595 https://doi.org/10.1089/neu.2019.6581

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Cohort study demonstrates that frailty predicts hospital stay and complications in younger spinal cord injury patients, highlighting the value of age-specific risk assessment.

Effect of Frailty on Outcome after Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

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Effect of Frailty on Outcome after Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

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