Association of the Modified Frailty Index With 30-Day Surgical Readmission.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Frail patients are known to have poor perioperative outcomes. There is a paucity of literature investigating how the Modified Frailty Index (mFI), a validated measure of frailty, is associated with unplanned readmission among military veterans following surgery.

Objective

To understand the association between frailty and 30-day postoperative unplanned readmission.

Design, setting, and participants

A retrospective cohort study was conducted among adult patients who underwent surgery and were discharged alive from Veterans Affairs hospitals for orthopedic, general, and vascular conditions between October 1, 2007, and September 30, 2014, with a postoperative length of stay between 2 and 30 days.

Exposure

Frailty, as calculated by the 11 variables on the

SUBMITTER: Wahl TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5710500 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature