Table 3.
Surgical characteristics in correlation with frailty status
| Clinical complications | Anemia [hemoglobin g/dl] | Transfusions | Surgical complexity score (SCS) | Operative revisions | Length of hospital stay ≥ 16 days | Death within 60 days | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| < 12 | > 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| G8-non-frail | 7 (12.5) | 14 (34.1) | 40 (64.5) | 23 (41.8) | 18 (48.6) | 26 (51.0) | 12 (57.1) | 7 (12.5) | 16 (28.6) | 1 (7.1) |
| G8 frail | 15 (27.8) | 27 (65.9) | 25 (38.5) | 32 (62.7) | 19 (51.4) | 25 (49.0) | 9 (42.9) | 14 (25.9) | 23 (42.6) | 3 (13.6) |
| p value G8 Score | 0.045 | 0.006 | 0.031 | 0.822 | 0.073 | 0.124 | 0.546 | |||
| ECOG 0 | 4 (14.3) | 10 (26.3) | 17 (27.9) | 13 (46.4) | 8 (22.9) | 14 (30.4) | 6 (31.6) | 2 (7.1) | 9 (32.1) | 0 (0.0) |
| ECOG 1 | 10 (20.4) | 17 (44.7) | 32 (52.5) | 19 (39.6) | 21 (60.0) | 20 (43.5) | 8 (42.1) | 12 (24.5) | 16 (32.7) | 2 (11.8) |
| ECOG 2 | 4 (22.2) | 8 (21.1) | 10 (16.4) | 13 (72.2) | 5 (14.3) | 9 (19.6) | 4 (21.1) | 3 (16.7) | 10 (55.6) | 1 (11.1) |
| ECOG 3 | 3 (60.0) | 3 (7.9) | 2 (3.3) | 2 (50.0) | 1 (2.9) | 3 (6.5) | 1 (5.3) | 2 (40.0) | 4 (80.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| p value ECOG PS | 0.147 | 0.666 | 0.131 | 0.832 | 0.171 | 0.072 | 0.797 | |||
| ASA 2 | 8 (16.7) | 13 (27.7) | 27 (45.8) | 20 (41.7) | 19 (51.4) | 19 (35.8) | 10 (52.6) | 6 (12.5) | 12 (25.0) | 2 (20.0) |
| ASA 3 | 14 (23.0) | 34 (72.3) | 32 (54.2) | 36 (59.0) | 18 (48.6) | 34 (64.2) | 9 (47.4) | 13 (21.3) | 27 (44.3) | 2 (7.4) |
| p value ASA PS | 0.417 | 0.056 | 0.072 | 0.245 | 0.229 | 0.037 | 0.273 | |||
| Age 60–65 years | 4 (17.4) | 6 (14.3) | 13 (19.1) | 9 (15.8) | 9 (23.7) | 8 (14.5) | 4 (19.0) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (9.8) | 0 (0.0) |
| Age > 65—70 years | 3 (13.0) | 8 (19.0) | 21 (30.9) | 10 (17.5) | 6 (15.8) | 19 (34.5) | 6 (28.6) | 5 (23.8) | 11 (26.8) | 0 (0.0) |
| Age > 70 years | 16 (69.6) | 28 (66.7) | 34 (50.0) | 38 (66.7) | 23 (60.5) | 29 (50.9) | 11 (52.4) | 16 (76.2) | 26 (63.4) | 4 (16.7) |
| p value age | 0.163 | 0.222 | 0.028 | 0.361 | 0.024 | 0.133 | 0.297 | |||
| BMI < 25 kg/m2 | 10 (18.5) | 27 (64.3) | 30 (45.5) | 33 (60.0) | 22 (38.6) | 25 (43.9) | 10 (17.5) | 9 (15.5) | 20 (34.5) | 2 (11.1) |
| BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 | 11 (19.3) | 15 (35.7) | 36 (54.5) | 24 (45.3) | 14 (25.5) | 30 (54.5) | 11 (20.0) | 12 (21.8) | 21 (38.2) | 2 (11.1) |
| p value BMI | 0.917 | 0.056 | 0.126 | 0.325 | 0.389 | 0.683 | 1.00 | |||
Assessment and frailty definitions utilized in the analysis
G8 Score G8 geriatric screening tool, ECOG PS Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status, ASA PS American society
of anesthesiologists physical status system, ys years, n = number of patients
Bold written words: analyzed main categories, bold written numbers: significant results (p < 0.05), italic written numbers: p < 0.1