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

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Frailty is a measure of decreased physiological reserve that is associated with morbidity and mortality in major elective and emergency general surgery operations, independent of chronological age. To date, the association of frailty with outcomes in ambulatory general surgery has not been established.

Objective

To determine the association between frailty and perioperative morbidity in patients undergoing ambulatory general surgery operations.

Design, setting, and participants

A retrospective cohort study was conducted of 140 828 patients older than 40 years of age from the 2007-2010 American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Participant Use File who underwent ambulatory and 23-hour-stay hernia, breast, thyroid, or parathyro

SUBMITTER: Seib CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5838594 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature