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