Addition of frailty and disability to cardiac surgery risk scores identifies elderly patients at high risk of mortality or major morbidity

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 222-228

  Afilalo, Jonathan ^a,b   Mottillo, Salvatore ^a   Eisenberg, Mark J ^a   Alexander, Karen P ^c   Noiseux, Nicolas ^d   Perrault, Louis P ^e   Morin, Jean Francois ^a   Langlois, Yves ^a   Ohayon, Samuel M ^a   Monette, Johanne ^b   Boivin, Jean Francois ^a   Shahian, David M ^f   Bergman, Howard ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cardiac surgery; Disability; Elderly; Frailty; Heart valve surgery; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARDIAC SURGERY RISK SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COHORT STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MORBIDITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK;

EID: 84860859047     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.111.963157     Document Type: Article

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