Leveraging HFRS to Assess How Frailty Affects Healthcare Resource Utilization after Elective ACDF for CSM

: Frailty is a common comorbidity associated with worsening outcomes in various medical and surgical fields. The Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS) is a recently developed tool which assesses frailty using 109 International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) comorbidity codes to assess severity of frailty. However, there is a paucity of studies utilizing the HFRS with patients undergoing anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) for cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM).

Source: The Spine Journal - August 18, 2022 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Aladine A. Elsamadicy, Andrew B. Koo, Margot Sarkozy, Wyatt B. David, Benjamin C. Reeves, Saarang Patel, Justice Hansen, Mani Ratnesh S. Sandhu, Astrid C. Hengartner, Andrew Hersh, Luis Kolb, Sheng-Fu Larry Lo, John H. Shin, Ehud Mendel, Daniel M. Sciubba Tags: Clinical Study Source Type: research