Frailty Is Superior to Age for Predicting Readmission, Prolonged Length of Stay, and Wound Infection in Elective Otology Procedures

Objective To determine the predictive ability of the 5-point modified frailty index relative to age in elective otology patients. Study Design Retrospective database analysis. Setting Multicenter, national database of surgical patients. Patients We selected all elective surgical patients who received tympanoplasty, tympanomastoidectomy, mastoidectomy, revision mastoidectomy, and cochlear implant procedures from 2016 to 2019 from the National Surgical Quality Improvement database. Interventions Therapeutic. Main Outcome Measures Readmission rates, discharge disposition, reoperation rates, and extended length of hospital stay. Results Utilizing receiver operating characteristics with area under the curve (AUC) analysis, nonrobust status was determined to be a superior predictor relative to age of readmission (AUC = 0.628 [p
Source: Otology and Neurotology - Category: ENT & OMF Tags: Middle Ear And Mastoid Disease Source Type: research