Surgical Outcomes for Patients Aged 80 and Older: Morbidity and Mortality from Major Noncardiac Surgery

By M. Hamel, W. Henderson, S. Khuri, J. Daley. Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, 2005

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Optimal preoperative assessment of the geriatric surgical patient: a best practices guideline from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and the American Geriatrics Society. (2012, background): “Another study of Veterans Administration VA) patients 80 years old showed that 30-day mortality as more strongly predicted by functional status than ge.(85) Impaired mobility in elderly patients has also been inked to increased risk of postoperative delirium(36,86) and surgical site infections with ”
Frailty as a predictor of surgical outcomes in older patients. (2010, background): “Reducing postoprative complications in older patients is important because omplications have been shown to increase 30-day mortalty by 26% in patients aged 80 and older.(2) Well-designed linical studies will be needed to develop targeted riskeduction strategies for frail patients.”
Use of Machine Learning to Develop and Evaluate Models Using Preoperative and Intraoperative Data to Identify Risks of Postoperative Complications (2021, methodology): “We depicted the following to support practitioners’ model interpretation: (1) the accumulated risk with the each of the top 10 clinical variables, measured by SHAP values and scaled to on a 0- to 1-point scale, with 0 indicating lowest risk score and 1 indicating highest risk score, using a logistic”