Accumulating deficits model of frailty and postoperative mortality and morbidity: Its application to a national database

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 104-110

  Velanovich, Vic ^a   Antoine, Heath ^b   Swartz, Andrew ^b   Peters, David ^b   Rubinfeld, Ilan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Frailty; National Surgical Quality Improvement Program; Outcomes; Postoperative morbidity; Postoperative mortality

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATING DEFICITS MODEL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADIAN STUDY OF HEALTH AND AGING FRAILTY INDEX; DATA BASE; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; FEMALE; FRAILTY; GENERAL SURGERY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROSURGERY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PHYSICAL DISEASE BY BODY FUNCTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; THEORETICAL MODEL; THORAX SURGERY; UROLOGIC SURGERY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879122360     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2013.01.021     Document Type: Article

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