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1Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Department of Critical Care, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Abstract:
Patient frailty is known to correlate with poor outcomes after surgery, however, routinely measuring frailty has proved an ongoing hurdle in perioperative practice. Self-reported patient frailty could represent a novel approach to the issue. Alkadari and colleagues report a largely successful experience with self-reported frailty in 531 older adults undergoing noncardiac surgery, although some challenges remain.
