Background: The identification of frailty before complex and invasive procedures may have
relevance for prognostic and recovery purposes, to optimally inform patients, caregivers and …

Background The burden of frailty on cardiac surgical outcomes is incompletely understood.
Here we perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies comparing frail versus …

Objective Frailty increases risk for morbidity and mortality after cardiac surgery. Its influence
on functional outcome is largely unknown. We studied the association of frailty with health …

Background—Frailty is an emerging concept in medicine yet to be explored as a risk factor
in cardiac surgery. Where elderly patients are increasingly referred for cardiac surgery, the …

Objectives Frailty is a syndrome characterized by increased vulnerability and reduced ability
to maintain homeostasis after stressful events that results in an increased risk for poor …

Objective: To examine the prevalence of frailty in surgical patients and determine whether
age and sex modify the relationship between frailty and long-term mortality. Background …

Frailty is increasingly recognized as a better predictor of adverse postoperative events than
chronological age. The objective of this review was to systematically evaluate the effect of …

Background There is limited information about the impact of frailty on public payer costs in
cardiac surgery. This study aimed to determine quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) and costs …

Importance Single-center studies identify frailty as a risk factor for 30-day postoperative
mortality. The long-term and population-level effect of frailty on postoperative mortality is, to …

Background Frailty is increasing in prevalence and poses a formidable challenge for
clinicians. The cardiac surgery literature consists primarily of small single‐center studies …