Do preoperative frailty-defining diagnoses increase the risk of 1-year postoperative mortality in patients undergoing major elective noncardiac surgery?
Preoperative frailty is a significant risk factor for 1-year mortality following major elective noncardiac surgery, emphasizing the importance of preoperative risk assessment.
At a population level, preoperative frailty-defining diagnoses were associated with a significantly increased risk of 1-year mortality that was particularly notable in the early postoperative period, in younger patients, and after joint arthroplasty.
McIsaac et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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