The clinical decision algorithm: If it's too complicated, we won't remember it, if it's too hard, we won't use it

We thank Barac and colleagues1 for their interest in our work and for sharing their experiences with use of the comprehensive assessment of frailty (CAF) tool to predict duration of hospitalization as a measure of recovery after cardiac surgery. We agree that the development of clinical prediction scores that incorporate frailty measures are urgently needed.2 Rapid advances in medical informatics will make available patient data from larger and larger databases to develop such scores for vulnerable subpopulations.
Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research