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Preoperative Geriatric-8 frailty screening and postoperative complications in older adults undergoing digestive cancer surgery: a single-centre observational study from Tunisia

2026-06-16

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background. Older adults undergoing surgery for digestive cancer are at high risk of postoperative complications, yet chronological age and comorbidity indices predict this risk poorly. We assessed the preoperative Geriatric-8 (G8) frailty screen as a predictor of postoperative complications in older patients with digestive cancer and compared it with the Charlson Comorbidity Index, in...

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78febe94-1bab-532e-a1f7-658b855aafc6
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10.21203/rs.3.rs-10035768/v1
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