Validation of a Novel Frailty Index in Surgical Cohorts

University of Iceland50,000 enrolled

Overview

This study will validate the utility of a novel frailty index that uses ICD diagnoses to call frailty severity in a surgical cohort of patients 65 and older

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

50,000

Conditions

Surgery--Complications Anesthesia Morbidity Perioperative Complication

Interventions

Frailty risk groupsOTHER

Patients older than 65 will be separated into groups of varying frailty risk

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 65 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients 65 years or older, undergoing any surgery at Landspitali University Hospital with an anesthesia team involved Exclusion Criteria: * No American Society of Anesthesiology classification provided

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

30-day mortality

Mortality within 30 days of surgery in each of the three frailty risk groups

Time frame: 30-days

Time to hospital readmission

For patients surviving index hospitalization, the proportional hazard ratio of readmission between the three frailty group

Time frame: Up to 180 days

Secondary Outcomes

Long-term mortality

Long-term mortality of the three different frailty risk groups, compared with proportional hazard modeling

Time frame: Up to 14 years

Prolonged hospital length-of stay

Incidence of patients staying more than 10-days after surgery in the three frailty risk cohorts

Time frame: 3 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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