A simplified frailty assessment using three objective measures predicts mid-term outcomes after cardiac surgery.

Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · 2026 · PMC13219124 · PMID 41417161

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.083so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The EuroSCORE II, a predictor of mortality after cardiac surgery, was significantly higher in frail patients defined by J-CHS criteria (p = 0.050) but did not reach statistical significance for Model 3-defined frailty (p = 0.083).

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