Validation of a Novel Frailty Index in Surgical Cohorts

University of Iceland

Status: Completed

Conditions: Perioperative Complication; Anesthesia Morbidity; Surgery--Complications

Treatments: Other: Frailty risk groups

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03971851

FrailtyAndSurgery

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will validate the utility of a novel frailty index that uses ICD diagnoses to call frailty severity in a surgical cohort of patients 65 and older

Enrollment: 50,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients 65 years or older, undergoing any surgery at Landspitali University Hospital with an anesthesia team involved

Exclusion criteria

• No American Society of Anesthesiology classification provided

Trial design

50,000 participants in 3 patient groups

Low frailty

Description:

Frailty risk score less than 5

Treatment:

Other: Frailty risk groups

Intermediate Frailty

Description:

Frailty risk score 5-15

Treatment:

Other: Frailty risk groups

High frailty

Description:

Frailty risk score 15 and above

Treatment:

Other: Frailty risk groups