Simplified frailty index to predict adverse outcomes and mortality in vascular surgery patients

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 904-908

  Karam, Joseph ^a   Tsiouris, Athanasios ^a   Shepard, Alexander ^a   Velanovich, Vic ^b   Rubinfeld, Ilan ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGE; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FRAILTY INDEX; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORBIDITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OPEN HEART SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VASCULAR SURGERY; WOUND ASSESSMENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84886095677     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: 16155947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2012.09.015     Document Type: Article

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