Surgical frailty assessment: a missed opportunity

New horizons in the implementation and research of comprehensive geriatric assessment: knowing, doing and the ‘know-do’ gap

(2016) John R. F. Gladman et al.   AGE AND AGEING

Frailty and one-year mortality in major intra-abdominal operations

(2016) Jessica L. Li et al.   JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH

Frailty and the Prediction of Negative Health Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis

(2016) Sofie Vermeiren et al.   Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Optimizing senior’s surgical care - Elder-friendly Approaches to the Surgical Environment (EASE) study: rationale and objectives

(2015) Rachel G. Khadaroo et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Perioperative factors predicting poor outcome in elderly patients following emergency general surgery: a multivariate regression analysis

(2015) Mackenzie Lees et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF SURGERY

Analysis of Rockwood et al’s Clinical Frailty Scale and Fried et al’s frailty phenotype as predictors of mortality and other clinical outcomes in older patients who were admitted to a geriatric ward

(2015) Martin Ritt et al.   Journal of Nutrition Health & Aging

Diagnosis of Frailty after a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment: Differences between Family Physicians and Geriatricians

(2015) J. A. L. van Kempen et al.   Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Comprehensive geriatric care for patients with hip fractures: a prospective, randomised, controlled trial

(2015) Anders Prestmo et al.   LANCET

Association of the clinical frailty scale with hospital outcomes

(2015) S.J. Wallis et al.   QJM-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Perceived frailty and measured frailty among adults undergoing hemodialysis: a cross-sectional analysis

(2015) Megan L Salter et al.   BMC Geriatrics

Where are we in perioperative medicine for older surgical patients? A UK survey of geriatric medicine delivered services in surgery

(2014) Judith S. L. Partridge et al.   AGE AND AGEING

Preoperative Assessment of the Older Patient

(2014) Lawrence B. Oresanya et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Frailty as a Predictor of Morbidity and Mortality in Inpatient Head and Neck Surgery

(2014) Peter Adams et al.   JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery

Predictors of in-hospital mortality and complications in very elderly patients undergoing emergency surgery

(2014) Shaheed Merani et al.   World Journal of Emergency Surgery

What impedes and what facilitates a quality improvement project for older hospitalized patients?

(2013) R. Ijkema et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE

Accumulating deficits model of frailty and postoperative mortality and morbidity: its application to a national database

(2013) Vic Velanovich et al.   JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH

Operationalization of Frailty Using Eight Commonly Used Scales and Comparison of Their Ability to Predict All-Cause Mortality

(2013) Olga Theou et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY

Are the frail destined to fail? Frailty index as predictor of surgical morbidity and mortality in the elderly

(2012) Joseph S. Farhat et al.   Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Development of an American College of Surgeons National Surgery Quality Improvement Program: Morbidity and Mortality Risk Calculator for Colorectal Surgery

(2009) Mark E. Cohen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

A guide for the design and conduct of self-administered surveys of clinicians

(2008) K. E.A. Burns et al.   CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL