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Table 3 Secondary outcome measures against patient frailty status

From: Utility and reliability of the Clinical Frailty Scale in patients scheduled for major vascular surgery: a prospective, observational, multicentre observer-blinded study

Secondary outcome measur

Non-frail (n = 49)

Pre-frail (n = 15)

Frail (n = 3)

Procedure

Open AAA

29 (59.2%)

3 (20.0%)

0

Bypass graft

2 (4.1%)

3 (20.0%)

0

EVAR

18 (36.7%)

9 (60.0%)

3 (100%)

Postoperative critical care admission (n, % proportion)

 

40 (81.6%)

11 (73.3%)

2 (66.7%)

Length of stay (mean, (SD))

Critical care

2 (2.41)

5 (8.07)

1 (0.07)

Hospital

7 (4.84)

7 (6.24)

3 (0.58)

In-hospital mortality (n, % proportion)

 

0 (0%)

2 (13.3%)

0

30-day readmission (n, % proportion)

5 (7.9%)

0

0

Major morbidity: Clavien-Dindo Score ≥ 3A-5 (n, % proportion)

10 (20.4%)*

2 (13.3%)

0

  1. Surgical procedure, number of critical care admissions, discharges home, in-hospital mortality and 30-day readmission (values as numbers and proportions of their frailty subgroup). The total length of critical care and hospital length of stay. Values are the mean and standard deviation [SD]
  2. *Clavien-Dindo morbidity scores were unavailable for two patients in the non-frail group