European urology focus
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European urology focus · Jul 2019
A Simplified Frailty Index to Predict Outcomes After Radical Cystectomy.
Traditional surgical risk indices are notoriously inaccurate, especially for the elderly, so there has been a trend to evaluate frailty instead. ⋯ This study demonstrated that a simple five-item frailty index can be used to assess preoperative risk in patients undergoing radical cystectomy.