Open AccessAssociation of Frailty and 1-Year Postoperative Mortality Following Major Elective Noncardiac Surgery
Author(s) -
Daniel I. McIsaac,
Gregory L. Bryson,
Carl van Walraven
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
jama surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.757
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 2168-6262
pISSN - 2168-6254
DOI - 10.1001/jamasurg.2015.5085
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , confounding , retrospective cohort study , population , cohort study , gerontology , confidence interval , environmental health
Single-center studies identify frailty as a risk factor for 30-day postoperative mortality. The long-term and population-level effect of frailty on postoperative mortality is, to our knowledge, poorly described, as are the interactions of frailty with important predictors of mortality.
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