The association between frailty and mortality among lower limb arthroplasty patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Some studies associate frailty and postoperative mortality in hip or knee replacement patients, and others have explored the relationship between the frailty index and changes in postoperative mortality in hip or knee replacement patients, but their findings are not consistent. This meta-analysis and systematic review aimed to pool the results of existing studies to explore whether frailty is an independent risk factor for postoperative mortality in patients with lower limb arthroplasty (including hip or knee arthroplasty).

Methods

On December 15, 2021, we searched the relevant articles from the PubMed, Embase, Medline (via Ovid), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Wan Fang Med Online databases. We used the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) to assess th

SUBMITTER: Bai Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9400276 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature