Transplant centers that assess frailty as part of clinical practice have better outcomes

• Published in: BMC geriatrics Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 82 - 12
• Main Authors: Chen, Xiaomeng, Liu, Yi, Thompson, Valerie, Chu, Nadia M., King, Elizabeth A., Walston, Jeremy D., Kobashigawa, Jon A., Dadhania, Darshana M., Segev, Dorry L., McAdams-DeMarco, Mara A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 27.01.2022; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Aged; Aged patients; Candidates; Care and treatment; Clinical outcomes; Clinical Practice; Diabetes; Frail elderly; Frailty; Frailty - complications; Frailty - diagnosis; Frailty - epidemiology; Geriatrics; Graft Loss; Health care; Hemodialysis; Humans; Identification and classification; Kidney diseases; Kidney Failure, Chronic; Kidney Transplant; Kidney transplantation; Kidney Transplantation - adverse effects; Kidney transplants; Kidneys; Mortality; Older people; Patient outcomes; Patients; Prognosis; Prospective Studies; Risk Factors; Survival; Transplantation; United States; United States > US; Graft Loss; Frailty; Kidney Transplant; Mortality; Clinical Practice

Frailty predicts adverse post-kidney transplant (KT) outcomes, yet the impact of frailty assessment on center-level outcomes remains unclear. We sought to test whether transplant centers assessing frailty as part of clinical practice have better pre- and post-KT outcomes in all adult patients (≥18 y...