Automated Electronic Frailty Index-Identified Frailty Status and Associated Postsurgical Adverse Events.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Electronic frailty index (eFI) is an automated electronic health record (EHR)-based tool that uses a combination of clinical encounters, diagnosis codes, laboratory workups, medications, and Medicare annual wellness visit data as markers of frailty status. The association of eFI with postanesthesia adverse outcomes has not been evaluated.

Objective

To examine the association of frailty, calculated as eFI at the time of the surgical procedure and categorized as fit, prefrail, or frail, with adverse events after elective noncardiac surgery.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study was conducted at a tertiary care academic medical center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The cohort included patients 55 years or older who underwent noncardiac surgery

SUBMITTER: Khanna AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10628731 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature