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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Surg. 2017 Aug 4;225(5):590–600.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2017.07.1066

Table 5.

Mortality Stratified by the Composite Frailty Scoring System

Variable Robust
(n = 168)
Cognitive Impairment
only (n = 96)
Physical Frailty
only (n = 40)
Physical Frailty +
Cognitive Impairment
(n = 26)
p Value
1-y mortality (n = 20), n (%) 9 (5.9) 1 (1.1) 5 (12.8) 5 (20.0) 0.002*
Survival rate at 1 y, % (95% CI) 94.3 (89.3–97.0) 98.9 (92.6–99.8) 87.4 (72.4–94.6) 80.3 (58.9–91.3)
2-y mortality (n = 38), n (%) 13 (9.9) 6 (7.2) 8 (22.9) 11 (47.8) <0.001*
Survival rate at 2 y, % (95% CI) 91.4 (85.7–94.9) 93.2 (85.4–96.9) 79.4 (62.9–89.1) 54.9 (33.3–72.1)
3-y mortality (n = 50), n (%) 19 (34.6) 11 (26.2) 9 (37.5) 11 (64.7) 0.048*
Survival rate at 3 y, % (95% CI) 82.6 (72.5–89.3) 86.3 (76.4–92.3) 76.3 (59.3–87.0) 54.9 (33.3–72.1)
Total death (n = 53), n (%) 20 (11.9) 12 (12.5) 10 (25) 11 (42.3) <0.001*
*

Statistically significant.