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- Nadia A Henriksen, Frederik Helgstrand, and Ismail Gögenur.
- nadiahenriksen@gmail.com.
- Ugeskr. Laeg. 2016 Nov 21; 178 (47).
AbstractIt is estimated that 15% of patients above 65 years of age are frail. Frail patients have significantly higher risk of post-operative complications when undergoing both elective and emergency surgery than patients who are not frail. Therefore, it is recommended that all patients above 65 years are frailty scored prior to a surgical procedure. It seems advisable to include the following items in a multimodal frailty score: evaluation of the patient's cognitive ability, functional status, nutritional status and pulmonary and cardiac function.
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