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Journal Article
Frailty assessment in the acute care surgery population - the agreement and predictive value on length of stay and re-admission of 3 different instruments in a prospective cohort
2020
Overview
We compared the Emergency General Surgery Specific Frailty Index (EGSFI), Risk Analysis Index (RAI-C) and the Katz Index (KI) at assessing frailty in acute care surgery (ACS).
A prospective cohort of ACS patients was stratified into frail or non-frail by the EGSFI, RAI-C and KI. The agreement between scales were compared.
Of 272 eligible patients, 72, 75, and 56 were categorized as frail by the EGSFI, RAI-C, and KI respectively. There was weak to no agreement between instruments and consensus among all three scales was 59.4%.
Between 21 and 28% of patients seen in this ACS cohort were categorized as frail using the EGSFI, RAI-C and KI. These frailty tools have different measures of what constitutes frailty and there was poor agreement between them. Only the KI definition of frailty was associated with a longer LOS. The KI may be more useful for assessing ACS patients in a tertiary care facility.
•One in 4 tertiary hospital ACS patients are frail.•There is little to no agreement on several current frailty scales in ACS.•The KI uses routine admission intake data.•KI measured frailty was associated with a longer LOS.•Specific frailty instruments may be best suited to specific hospital settings.
