Influence of Preoperative Frailty On Health-Related Quality of Life after Cardiac Surgery.

CONCLUSIONS: Frail and pre-frail patients have a significant improvement in their quality-of-life 6 months after cardiac surgery, and they have a proportionally greater increase in their postoperative health-related quality of life scores than robust ones. PMID: 30682356 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research