Addition of frailty and disability to cardiac surgery risk scores identifies elderly patients at high risk of mortality or major morbidity

Background- Cardiac surgery risk scores perform poorly in elderly patients, in part because they do not take into account frailty and disability which are critical determinants of health status with advanced age. There is an unmet need to combine established cardiac surgery risk scores with measures...

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Published in:	Circulation Cardiovascular quality and outcomes Vol. 5; no. 2; p. 222
Main Authors:	Afilalo, Jonathan, Mottillo, Salvatore, Eisenberg, Mark J, Alexander, Karen P, Noiseux, Nicolas, Perrault, Louis P, Morin, Jean-Francois, Langlois, Yves, Ohayon, Samuel M, Monette, Johanne, Boivin, Jean-Francois, Shahian, David M, Bergman, Howard
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.03.2012
Subjects:	Activities of Daily Living Aged Aged, 80 and over Cardiac Surgical Procedures - mortality Cohort Studies Disabled Persons Female Frail Elderly Gait Humans Male Morbidity Prospective Studies Risk
ISSN:	1941-7705, 1941-7705
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