What is the utility of preoperative frailty assessment for risk stratification in cardiac surgery?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 398-402

  Bagnall, Nigel Mark ^a   Faiz, Omar ^a   Darzi, Ara ^a   Athanasiou, Thanos ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Elderly; Frailty; Outcome; Review

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADL DISABILITY; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ELDERLY CARE; EUROSCORE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FRAIL ELDERLY; FRAILTY PREDICTS DEATH ONE YEAR AFTER ELECTIVE CARDIAC SURGERY TEST; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTED RISK OF MORTALITY OR MAJOR MORBIDITY RISK SCORE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIETY OF THORACIC SURGEONS SCORE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL STRESS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 84880717355     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivt197     Document Type: Article

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