Utility of hospital frailty risk score in predicting postoperative outcomes of sinonasal malignancies

Rema Anisha Kandula; Lauren A Linquest; Sandeep Kandregula; Mackenzie Latour; Omar G Ahmed; Michael T Yim

doi:10.1002/alr.23307

Utility of hospital frailty risk score in predicting postoperative outcomes of sinonasal malignancies

Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2023 Dec 8. doi: 10.1002/alr.23307. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Rema Anisha Kandula¹, Lauren A Linquest², Sandeep Kandregula³, Mackenzie Latour¹, Omar G Ahmed⁴, Michael T Yim^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Otolaryngology, LSU Health Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
² LSU Health School of Medicine, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
³ Department of Neurosurgery, LSU Health Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
⁴ Department of Otolaryngology, Houston Methodist Academic Institute, Houston, Texas, USA.

PMID: 38064283
DOI: 10.1002/alr.23307

Abstract

Hospital frailty risk score (HFRS) correlates with complications, length of stay, and non-routine discharge. HFRS is a better predictor of postsurgical sequelae than age and Elixhauser comorbidity index.

Keywords: health care economics; post-operative; skull base; statistics.