Association of Patient Frailty With Increased Morbidity After Common Ambulatory General Surgery Operations

2017202 citationsJournal Articlebronze Open Access

Authors

Carolyn D. Seib · University of California, San Francisco

Holly Rochefort · University of California, San Francisco

Kathryn H. Chomsky‐Higgins · University of California, San Francisco

Jessica E. Gosnell · University of California, San Francisco

Insoo Suh · University of California, San Francisco

Wen T. Shen · University of California, San Francisco

Quan‐Yang Duh

Abstract

Frailty is associated with increased perioperative morbidity in common ambulatory general surgery operations, independent of age, type of anesthesia, and other comorbidities. Surgeons should consider frailty rather than chronological age when counseling and selecting patients for elective ambulatory surgery.

Topics & Keywords

Frailty in Older Adults Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes Hip and Femur Fractures

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: JAMA Surgery

Volume 153, Issue 2, pp. 160-160

DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2017.4007

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