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. 2022 Nov 24;307(6):1929–1940. doi: 10.1007/s00404-022-06850-4

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