It is not all black and white: The effect of increasing severity of frailty on outcomes of geriatric trauma patients
Qaidar Alizai, Joseph D Amos, Christina Colosimo, Hamidreza Hosseinpour, Collin Stewart, Sai Krishna Bhogadi, Adam Nelson, Audrey L Spencer, Michael Ditillo, Louis J Magnotti, Bellal Joseph, Amanda Teichman, Melissa L Whitmill, Sigrid K Burruss, Julie A Dunn, Kaveh Najafi, Laura N Godat, Toby M Enniss, Thomas H Shoultz, Tanya Egodage, Tasce Bongiovanni, Joshua P Hazelton, Kristin P Colling, Todd W Costantini, Deborah M Stein, Thomas J Schroeppel, Jeffry Nahmias, Khaled El-Qawaqzeh, Rachel L Choron, Paul B Comish, Kyle Leneweaver, Brandi Palmer, Michael S Truitt, Mike Farrell, Lacee J Laufenberg, Erica Lasso-Tay, Zachery Stillman, Daniel T Hass, Heather M Grossman, Darnell Gordon, Cassandra Krause, Jonathan Thomas, AAST Frailty MIT Study Group
Frailty is associated with poor outcomes in trauma patients. However, the spectrum of physiologic deficits, once a patient is identified as frail, is unknown. The aim of this study was to assess the dynamic association between increasing frailty and outcomes among frail geriatric trauma patients
Article, 2024
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, 96, 20240301, 434
2024