Postoperative Recovery in Frail, Pre-frail, and Non-frail Elderly Patients Following Abdominal Surgery

Tarifin Sikder,Nadia Sourial,Geva Maimon,Mehdi Tahiri,Debby Teasdale,Howard Bergman,Shannon A. Fraser,Sebastian Demyttenaere,Simon Bergman

Postoperative Recovery in Frail, Pre-frail, and Non-frail Elderly Patients Following Abdominal Surgery

2019

Tarifin Sikder
Nadia Sourial
Geva Maimon
Mehdi Tahiri
Debby Teasdale
Howard Bergman
Shannon A. Fraser
Sebastian Demyttenaere
Simon Bergman

Background The objective of this study is to explore the association between frailty and surgical recovery over a 6-month period, in elderly patients undergoing elective abdominal surgery.

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General surgery
Surgery
Abdominal surgery
Medicine
Quality of life
Logistic regression
Vascular surgery
Physical therapy
Weakness
Activities of daily living
Weight loss
Repeated measures design

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