Background: There is increasing evidence supporting the association between frailty and
adverse outcomes after surgery. There is, however, no consensus on how frailty should be …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND CONTEXT Frailty is associated with an increased risk of
postoperative adverse events (AEs) within the surgical spine population. Multiple frailty tools …

OBJECTIVE Frailty's role in preoperative risk assessment in spine surgery has increased in
association with the increasing size of the aging population. However, previous frailty …

OBJECTIVE Hybrid surgery (HS) is the combination of anterior cervical discectomy and
fusion (ACDF) and cervical disc arthroplasty (CDA) at different levels in the same operation …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Frailty is a common comorbidity associated with worsening
outcomes in various medical and surgical fields. The Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS) is a …

Frailty is a measure of physiological reserve that has been demonstrated to be a
discriminative predictor of worse outcomes across multiple surgical subspecialties. Anterior …

Abstract Background Context Frailty as a concept is not yet fully understood, and is not the
same as comorbidity. It is associated with an increased risk of adverse events and mortality …

Purpose To determine whether the 11-item modified frailty index (mFI) is associated with
readmission rates, complication rates, revision rates, or differences in patient-reported …

Background Several contemporary risk stratification tools are now being used since the
development of the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) in 1987. The purpose of this …

OBJECTIVE The objective of this paper was to compare the predictive ability of the
recalibrated Risk Analysis Index (RAI-rev) with the 5-item modified frailty index-5 (mFI-5) for …