Frailty score and outcomes of patients underwent vascular surgeries and amputations. A systematic review and meta-analysis
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Dunn, Riley
Jackson, Mark
Morley, Nicola
Sun, Jing
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Introduction Frailty is associated with adverse postoperative health outcomes, including increased mortality, longer length of stay, higher rehospitalization, and comorbidities. Many frailty assessment tools are to assess the level of frailty in vascular surgery patients. The aim of this study was to use a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the association between the frailty levels described by different frailty scores and adverse postoperative health outcomes among hospitalized vascular surgery patients and patients who have undergone amputations only. Methods Studies utilizing frailty scores and similar frailty assessment tools to describe frailty and investigate the association between frailty and health outcomes were searched. The primary outcomes of this study were in-hospital mortality, post discharge mortality, length of hospital stay, rehospitalization, and discharge location. Additional outcomes included postoperative myocardial infarction, postoperative renal failure, cerebrovascular accident and stroke, comorbidities, and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) levels. Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Critical Appraisal Tools were used for quality assessment. Results In total, 24 studies with 1,886,611 participants were included in the final analysis. The overall results found that higher in-hospital mortality and post discharge mortality were significantly associated with frailty. Frailty was also found to be significantly associated with a longer length of hospital stay, higher rehospitalization, and higher likelihood of non-home discharge. In addition, the results also showed that frailty was significantly associated with all kinds of comorbidities investigated, except chronic kidney disease. However, lower eGFR levels were significantly associated with frailty. Conclusion Among patients who underwent all types of vascular surgeries and those who underwent amputations, being frail was significantly associated with adverse postoperative outcomes and multiple comorbidities.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
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© 2023 Chen, Dunn, Jackson, Morley and Sun. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Chen, S; Dunn, R; Jackson, M; Morley, N; Sun, J, Frailty score and outcomes of patients underwent vascular surgeries and amputations. A systematic review and meta-analysis, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023, 10, pp. 1065779