In an ageing population of patients with heart disease, preinterventional frailty assessment
for risk prediction is gaining relevance both in cardiac surgery and transcatheter valve …

Background Frailty is associated with poorer outcomes in cardiac surgery, but the
heterogeneity in frailty assessment tools makes it difficult to ascertain its true impact in …

Background Failure to rescue (FTR) is gaining popularity as a quality metric. The
relationship between patient frailty and FTR after cardiovascular surgery has not been fully …

BACKGROUND: Skilled nursing facility (SNF) care is frequently used after cardiac surgery,
but the patterns and determinants of use have not been well understood. The objective of …

OBJECTIVES The objective was to review national trends in activity and hospital outcomes
in older patients having cardiac surgery over a 15-year time period. METHODS Data were …

Frailty is becoming an important component of health care outcomes in patients with a
diagnosis of heart failure. A literature search was completed to determine whether a best …

Background Although frailty has been previously shown to negatively influence
postoperative outcomes, frailty measurements remain undefined and underused for patients …

Background Cross‐sectional evidence suggests a possible link between frailty and atrial
fibrillation (AF). It remains unclear whether frailty and incident arrhythmias are longitudinally …

Background: The 5 m gait speed (5MGS), a simple and reliable performance metric and
surrogate indicator of frailty, consistently predicts adverse events in elders. Additionally …

The STS has recognized the importance of frailty in cardiac surgery outcomes, and in 2011
added preoperative 5-meter gait speed as a variable in the adult cardiac surgery database …