Background The ability of acute care providers to cope with the influx of frail older patients is
increasingly stressed, and changes need to be made to improve care provided to older …

Trauma is traditionally considered a disease of young men after motor vehicle collisions and
interpersonal violence. The acute trauma chain of care has been organized to identify and …

BACKGROUND Frail geriatric trauma and emergency general surgery (TEGS) patients have
longer lengths of stay (LOS), more readmissions, and higher rates of postdischarge …

Background Little is known about the prognostic implications of frailty, a state of
susceptibility to stressors and poor recovery to homeostasis in older people, after myocardial …

Background National guidelines recommend that prehospital and emergency department
(ED) criteria identify patients who might benefit from trauma center triage and highest-level …

Background Although many frailty scales exist, a single scale has not been agreed upon to
define frailty. Herein, we determined whether the Canadian Study on Health and Aging …

BACKGROUND Advancing age is a strong risk factor for adverse outcomes across multiple
disease processes. However, septic surgical and trauma patients are unique in that they …

Introduction Assessing outcomes in patients with colon cancer (CC) undergoing surgical
intervention is challenging. Frailty has been as established tool for assessing patient …

BACKGROUND Palliative care (PC) is associated with lower-intensity treatment and better
outcomes at the end of life. Trauma surgeons play a critical role in end-of-life (EOL) care; …

Background: While various objective tools have been validated for assessing physical frailty
in the geriatric population, these are often unsuitable for busy clinics and mobility-impaired …