Reply to the letter to the editor regarding “HFRS in patients undergoing ACDF for CSM”

We greatly appreciate the Letter by Rangel et al. in regard to our published work “Leveraging HFRS to Assess How Frailty Affects Healthcare Resource Utilization after Elective ACDF for CSM” [1]. We concur with the authors that there are significant limitations to analyzing an administrative billing national dataset, such as the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS). Additionally, that while HFRS was validated in older patients in an acute care setting, there may still be potential use of HFRS as risk-assessment tool to identify frailty in adults with CSM.
Source: The Spine Journal - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Tags: Reply to Letter to the Editor Source Type: research