The Association of Preoperative Frailty and Postoperative Delirium: A Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Both frailty and postoperative delirium (POD) are common in elective surgical patients 65 years of age and older. However, the association between preoperative frailty and POD remains difficult to characterize owing to the large number of frailty and POD assessment tools used in the literature, only a few of which are validated. Furthermore, some validated frailty tools fail to provide clear score cutoffs for distinguishing frail and nonfrail patients. We performed a meta-analysis to estimate the relationship between preoperative frailty and POD.

Methods

We searched several major databases for articles that investigated the relationship between preoperative frailty and POD in patients with mean age ≥65 years who were undergoing elective, nonemergent inpatient surg

SUBMITTER: Gracie TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8289124 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature