Use of the Modified Frailty Index in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Improvement Program Database: Highlighting the Problem of Missing Data

JAMA Surg. 2017 Feb 1;152(2):205-207. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2016.3479.

Authors

Faiz Gani¹, Joseph K Canner¹, Timothy M Pawlik²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland2Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus3Deputy Editor, JAMA Surgery.

PMID: 27784060
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2016.3479

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Databases, Factual
Frailty / classification*
Humans
Program Evaluation*
Quality Improvement*
Surgical Procedures, Operative / standards*
Surgical Procedures, Operative / statistics & numerical data
United States