Development and Initial Validation of the Risk Analysis Index for Measuring Frailty in Surgical Populations
Author(s) -
Daniel E. Hall,
Shipra Arya,
Kendra K. Schmid,
Casey Blaser,
Mark A. Carlson,
Travis L. Bailey,
Georgia Purviance,
Tammy Bockman,
Thomas G. Lynch,
Jason M. Johanning
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.2016.4202
Subject(s) - medicine , veterans affairs , statistic , receiver operating characteristic , prospective cohort study , emergency medicine , quality management , frailty index , gerontology , general surgery , surgery , operations management , statistics , management system , mathematics , economics
Growing consensus suggests that frailty-associated risks should inform shared surgical decision making. However, it is not clear how best to screen for frailty in preoperative surgical populations.
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