Does the CFS improve predictive performance for postoperative outcomes compared to the FP and FI in older people?
The CFS provides superior predictive performance for postoperative outcomes in older people compared to the FP and FI, and is recommended for preoperative practice.
Frailty instruments provide meaningful increases in accuracy when predicting postoperative outcomes for older people. Compared to the FP and FI, the CFS appears to improve all measures of predictive performance to the greatest extent and across outcomes. Combined with previous research demonstrating that the CFS is easy to use and requires less time than the FP, clinicians should consider its use in preoperative practice.
McIsaac et al. (Fri,) studied this question.