Failure to Rescue After Emergency General Surgery in Geriatric Patients: Does Frailty Matter?

• Published in: The Journal of surgical research Vol. 233; pp. 397 - 402
• Main Authors: Khan, Muhammad, Jehan, Faisal, Zeeshan, Muhammad, Kulvatunyou, Narong, Fain, Mindy J., Saljuqi, Abdul Tawab, O'Keeffe, Terence, Joseph, Bellal
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.01.2019
• Subjects: EGS; Failure to rescue; Frailty; FTR; EGS; Frailty; Failure to rescue; FTR

Failure to rescue (FTR) is considered as an index of quality of care provided by a hospital. However, the role of frailty in FTR remains unclear. We hypothesized that the FTR rate is higher for frail geriatric emergency general surgery (EGS) patients than nonfrail geriatric EGS patients. We performe...