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Area of Science:

  • Geriatric Medicine
  • Surgical Outcomes
  • Acute Care

Background:

  • Acute appendicitis in the elderly often presents with severe courses.
  • Frailty is a known risk factor for adverse outcomes in older surgical patients.
  • Limited data exists on frailty's impact specifically in elderly acute appendicitis cases.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between frailty and outcomes in elderly patients undergoing surgery for acute appendicitis.
  • To compare the efficacy and efficiency of two frailty assessment tools: the Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS) and the modified Frailty Index (mFI).

Main Methods:

  • A cohort of patients aged 65 and older with acute appendicitis was assessed using HFRS and mFI.
  • Surgical outcomes including morbidity, mortality, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, and length of stay were recorded.
  • Data was collected from January 2015 to September 2020 across three hospitals.

Main Results:

  • The mFI demonstrated superior applicability and significantly faster implementation (21.6s vs. 80.3s) compared to HFRS, while yielding comparable information.
  • Frail patients exhibited significantly higher rates of mild and serious complications, increased ICU admissions, and nearly doubled length of stay.
  • A substantial 31% of frail patients required institutional care post-discharge, and their mortality rate was significantly elevated at 17% versus less than 1% in non-frail patients.

Conclusions:

  • Frailty is a significant predictor of poor outcomes in elderly patients with acute appendicitis.
  • The mFI offers a more efficient and reliable method for assessing frailty in this demographic compared to HFRS.