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Other frailty assessment instruments
Affiliations- Department of General, Oncologic, Gastrointestinal Surgery and Transplantology, I Chair of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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Abstract
At present there is strong evidence demonstrating that not chronological age, but the presence of frailty before surgery is associated with a significant increase in postoperative morbidity, mortality, along with increased risk of delirium, disability, increased length of hospital stay and resource use. Therefore, preoperative frailty evaluations should become obligatory prior to high-risk surgery of older patients suffering from cancer. Currently, the golden standard is the full Geriatric Assessment. However, it requires time and, first of all, experience. Various simple frailty screening tools have been developed,, however, currently there is no single ideal one. Therefore, there is a constant search for the “holy grail” of preoperative geriatric evaluations. The Tilburg Frailty Indicator, the Edmonton Frail Scale, the Cardiovascular Health Study index, the Clinical Frailty Scale, the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures index and Frailty Index are examples of evaluation tools that have some features of screening scores and the full Geriatric Assessment. In the present article they were characterised briefly to familiarize the reader with the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Abstract
At present there is strong evidence demonstrating that not chronological age, but the presence of frailty before surgery is associated with a significant increase in postoperative morbidity, mortality, along with increased risk of delirium, disability, increased length of hospital stay and resource use. Therefore, preoperative frailty evaluations should become obligatory prior to high-risk surgery of older patients suffering from cancer. Currently, the golden standard is the full Geriatric Assessment. However, it requires time and, first of all, experience. Various simple frailty screening tools have been developed,, however, currently there is no single ideal one. Therefore, there is a constant search for the “holy grail” of preoperative geriatric evaluations. The Tilburg Frailty Indicator, the Edmonton Frail Scale, the Cardiovascular Health Study index, the Clinical Frailty Scale, the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures index and Frailty Index are examples of evaluation tools that have some features of screening scores and the full Geriatric Assessment. In the present article they were characterised briefly to familiarize the reader with the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Keywords
frailty screening; Tilburg Frailty Indicator; Edmonton Frail Scale; Study of Osteoporotic Fractures Index; Frailty Index
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Other frailty assessment instruments
Journal
Nowotwory. Journal of Oncology
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Article type
Review paper
Pages
267-271
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2020-12-04
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Nowotwory. Journal of Oncology 2020;70(6):267-271.
Keywords
frailty screening
Tilburg Frailty Indicator
Edmonton Frail Scale
Study of Osteoporotic Fractures Index
Frailty Index
Authors
Jakub Kenig
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