Inclusion of Sarcopenia Outperforms the Modified Frailty Index in Predicting 1-Year Mortality among 1,326 Patients Undergoing Gastrointestinal Surgery for a Malignant Indication

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
4290723	Journal of the American College of Surgeons	2016	13 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Sarcopenia was combined with clinical factors to generate a composite risk-score that can be used to identify frail patients at greatest risk for 1-year mortality after gastrointestinal cancer surgery.

Keywords

MFI ASA tPA IQR ECoG CCI TPV modified Frailty Index American Society of Anesthesiologists Charlson Comorbidity Index eastern cooperative oncology group interquartile range hazard ratio odds ratio

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Inclusion of Sarcopenia Outperforms the Modified Frailty Index in Predicting 1-Year Mortality among 1,326 Patients Undergoing Gastrointestinal Surgery for a Malignant Indication

Authors

Stefan BS, Doris MD, Yuhree MD, MPH, Georgios A. MD, PhD, Martin A. MD, MPH, Ana DO, Kazunari MD, Neda MD, Faiz MBBS, Timothy M. MD, MPH, PhD, FACS,