Frailty index predicts severe complications in gynecologic oncology patients

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 98-101

  Uppal, Shitanshu ^a   Igwe, Elena ^b   Rice, Laurel W ^a   Spencer, Ryan J ^a   Rose, Stephen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Frailty; NSQIP; Surgical complications; Surgical outcomes

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; DISSEMINATED CANCER; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; FRAILTY INDEX; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; COMPLICATION; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929942757     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2015.01.532     Document Type: Article

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