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| Title |
Patient frailty: the elephant in the operating room
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Anaesthesia, December 2013
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| DOI | 10.1111/anae.12490 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
R. E. Hubbard, D. A. Story |
| Abstract |
For most surgeons and many anaesthetists, patient frailty is currently the 'elephant in the (operating) room': it is easy to spot, but is often ignored. In this paper, we discuss different approaches to the measurement of frailty and review the evidence regarding the effect of frailty on peri-operative outcomes. We explore the limitations of 'eyeballing' patients to quantify frailty, and consider why the frail older patient, challenged by seemingly minor insults in the postoperative period, may suffer falls or delirium. Frailty represents a state of increased vulnerability to stressors, and older inpatients are exposed to multiple stressors in the peri-operative setting. Quantifying frailty is likely to increase the precision of peri-operative risk assessment. The Frailty Index derived from Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment is a simple and robust way to quantify frailty, but is yet to be systematically investigated in the pre-operative setting. Furthermore, the optimal care for frail patients and the reversibility of frailty with prehabilitation are fertile areas for future research. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 21 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 11 | 52% |
| Spain | 1 | 5% |
| Morocco | 1 | 5% |
| Timor-Leste | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 7 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 12 | 57% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 24% |
| Scientists | 3 | 14% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 216 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 206 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 40 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 30 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 22 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 10% |
| Other | 15 | 7% |
| Other | 53 | 25% |
| Unknown | 35 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 136 | 63% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 13 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 2% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 2% |
| Unspecified | 3 | 1% |
| Other | 11 | 5% |
| Unknown | 45 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 May 2015.
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#2,897,404
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#1,679
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#31,813
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Outputs of similar age from Anaesthesia
#4
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