Postoperative Outcomes Correlate With Frailty Defined Using Vascular Quality Initiative Data

Frailty is a multifactorial condition that correlates with clinical outcomes after surgery. We hypothesized that frailty could be defined using information collected as part of the Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) and would correlate with vascular surgery postoperative outcomes.

Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - July 24, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Larry W. Kraiss, Ragheed Al-Dulaimi, Julie Thelen, Benjamin S. Brooke Tags: Abstract from the 2015 Annual Meetings of the Western Vascular Society and Australia and New Zealand Society for Vascular Surgery Source Type: research