Frailty Syndrome and the Use of Frailty Indices as a Preoperative Risk Stratification Tool in Spine Surgery: A Review

This comprehensive narrative literature review aims to extract studies related to frailty indices and their use in elective spine procedures, as limited studies regarding frailty exist in the spine literature. Most studies are retrospective analyses of prospectively collected databases. Evidence sug...

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Main Authors: Trevor Simcox, Derek Antoku, Nickul Jain, Frank Acosta, Raymond Hah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Spine Society 2019-10-01
Series:Asian Spine Journal
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Online Access:http://www.asianspinejournal.org/upload/pdf/asj-2018-0239.pdf