How does Frailty Impact Peri-Operative and Speech Recognition Outcomes for Cochlear Implants in Veterans?

Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg · 2026 · PMC12948397 · PMID 41622784

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Frail patients (mFI‐5 ≥ 2) were admitted (42.9% vs 36.4%, RR 1.15) and experienced postoperative dizziness (20.4% vs 14.5%, RR 1.23) at higher rates than nonfrail and prefrail patients (mFI ≤ 1), though these findings did not reach statistical significance ( P > .05).

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