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Creation, Evaluation and Validation of a Preoperative Frailty Index Using Health Administrative Data: a Population-based Cohort Study
In Brief
An observational study evaluating Frailty index for Frail Elderly Syndrome and 3 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 511,285 participants.
Detailed Summary
The investigators will create a frailty index using health administrative data available for older people having surgery. The index will be based on the Canadian Study of Health and Aging Frailty Index and standard recommendations for creation of frailty indices.
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A frailty index composed of variables from health administrative data that cover multi-system health issues. Deficits will be coded as present or absent, and the number of deficits present will be divided by the total number of deficits present to provide an overall score between 0-1.