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A prospective study examining the association between preoperative frailty and postoperative complications in patients undergoing minimally invasive surgery.
Journal of endourology - 1 Apr 2014
Revenig Louis M, Canter Daniel J, Master Viraj A, Maithel Shishir K, Kooby David A, Pattaras John G, Tai Caroline, Ogan Kenneth
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Current surgical decision-making is overly subjective and often misjudges a patient's physiologic state. The concept of frailty has gained recent recognition and potentially represents a measureable phenotype, which can quantify a patient's physiologic reserve and risk of an adverse surgical outcome. We sought to investigate the relationship between preoperative markers of frailty and...
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