Association of Patient Frailty With Increased Morbidity After Common Ambulatory General Surgery Operations | Zendy

Carolyn D. Seib | Zendy; Holly Rochefort | Zendy; Kathryn H. ChomskyHiggins | Zendy; Jessica E. Gosnell | Zendy; Insoo Suh | Zendy; Wen T. Shen | Zendy; QuanYang Duh | Zendy; Emily Finlayson | Zendy

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Association of Patient Frailty With Increased Morbidity After Common Ambulatory General Surgery Operations

Author(s) -

Carolyn D. Seib,

Holly Rochefort,

Kathryn H. ChomskyHiggins,

Jessica E. Gosnell,

Insoo Suh,

Wen T. Shen,

QuanYang Duh,

Emily Finlayson

Publication year - 2017

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.2017.4007

Subject(s) - medicine , ambulatory , association (psychology) , medline , emergency medicine , general surgery , intensive care medicine , surgery , philosophy , epistemology , political science , law

Frailty is a measure of decreased physiological reserve that is associated with morbidity and mortality in major elective and emergency general surgery operations, independent of chronological age. To date, the association of frailty with outcomes in ambulatory general surgery has not been established.

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