Usefulness of the holistic context of frailty as a  prognostic factor for the outcome of geriatric patients undergoing emergency abdominal surgery

ConclusionFrailty is a  predictive factor that should be routinely used in emergency geriatric surgery in a holistic context that includes physical, cognitive, functional, and social variables. Designing scores based on a broader concept of frailty will enable a more consistent predictive evaluation. Social frailty ma y have an important predictive value in the postoperative hospital outcome and in other medical fields, and should be studied in more depth in the future.
Source: European Surgery - Category: Surgery Source Type: research