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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Surg. 2011 Mar 23;213(1):37–42. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2011.01.056

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Accumulation of frailty characteristics and the rate of postoperative discharge to an institution. The presence or absence of the seven frailty characteristics found to be most closely related to discharge institutionalization (asterisks on Table 1 denotes the 7 frailty characteristics used) were assessed in each subject. The presence of a frailty characteristic was scored as 1 characteristic. The number of positive frailty characteristics was summed to create a number that represented the accumulated amount of frailty characteristics present in each subject. (p<0.01 for all comparisons except 4 and 5 versus 6 and 7 [p=0.31]).