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 …

Study Design Case-control study; Level of evidence, 3. Objective Anterior cervical
discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is one of the most common procedures for cervical diseases …

Study Design. Retrospective study of prospectively collected data. Objective. To investigate
the applicability of the modified frailty index (mFI) as a predictor of adverse postoperative …

Study Design. Retrospective review. Objective. Develop a simplified frailty index for cervical
deformity (CD) patients. Summary of Background Data. To improve preoperative risk …

Study design Retrospective review of multicentric data. Objectives The modified 5-item frailty
index is a relatively new tool to assess the post-operative complication risks. It has been …

Objective To determine the value of a novel adult cervical deformity frailty index (CD-FI) in
preoperative risk stratification. Methods We reviewed a prospective, multicenter database of …

Background Frailty is an increasingly studied tool for preoperative risk stratification, but its
prognostic value for anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) patients is unclear. We …

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 …

Study Design. Retrospective cohort study. Objective. This study aimed to evaluate the utility
of the modified frailty index (mFI-5) in a population of patients undergoing spine surgery …

Introduction: Frailty has been shown to negatively influence patient outcomes across many
disease processes, including in the cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) population. The …