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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2022 Jan 21;207(6):1276–1284. doi: 10.1097/JU.0000000000002441

Table 1.

Characteristics of Baseline Cohort Stratified by Claims-based Frailty Index (CFI)

Total Not Frail (CFI<0.15) Prefrail
(0.15≤CFI<0.25)
Mildly Frail
(0.25≤CFI<0.35)
Moderately to
severe frail
(CFI≥0.35)
P value
All Subjects N (%) 54112 (100.0) 25012 (46.2) 26326 (48.7) 2583 (4.8) 191 (0.4)
Age N (%):
 Mean ± SD 73.6 ± 5.6 72.5 ± 5.0 74.4 ± 5.8 76.1 ± 6.4 77.0 ± 6.5 <0.001
 Median (IQR) 72.6 (69.0 - 77.1) 71.50 (68.4 - 75.4) 73.5 (69.6 - 78.1) 75.5 (70.8 - 80.4) 76.4 (72.3 - 81.7) <0.001
 66-69 17468 (32.3) 9676 (38.7) 7230 (27.5) 534 (20.7) 28 (14.7) <0.001
 70-74 17424 (32.2) 8478 (33.9) 8202 (31.2) 690 (26.7) 54 (28.3)
 75-79 11655 (21.5) 4689 (18.8) 6254 (23.8) 659 (25.5) 53 (27.8)
 80-85 5296 (9.8) 1653 (6.6) 3177 (12.1) 430 (16.7) 36 (18.9)
 ≥85 2269 (4.2) 516 (2.1) 1463 (5.6) 270 (10.5) 20 (10.5)
Race N (%):
 White 49943 (92.3) 23232 (92.9) 24128 (91.7) 2405 (93.1) 178 (93.2) <0.001
 Black 1542 (2.9) 553 (2.2) 914 (3.5) 66 (2.6) 9 (4.7)
 Other 2627 (4.9) 1227 (4.9) 1284 (4.9) 112 (4.3) 4 (2.1)
Charlson Comorbidity Index N (%):
 0-1 33047 (61.1) 20065 (80.2) 12613 (47.9) 364 (14.1) 5 (2.6) <0.001
 2-4 16614 (30.7) 4590 (18.4) 10780 (41.0) 1189 (46.0) 55 (28.8)
 > 4 4451 (8.2) 357 (1.4) 2933 (11.1) 1030 (39.9) 131 (68.6)
 Mean ± SD 1.6 ± 1.9 0.8 ± 1.1 2.1 ± 1.9 4.1 ± 2.5 6.7 ± 2.8 <0.001
 Median (IQR) 1.0 (0.0 - 2.0) 0.0 (0.0 - 1.0) 2.0 (1.0 - 3.0) 4.0 (2.0 - 6.0) 6.0 (4.0 - 8.0) <0.001
Procedure Year N (%):
 2014 18949 (35.0) 8891 (35.6) 9083 (34.5) 902 (34.9) 73 (38.2) 0.040
 2015 17075 (31.6) 7908 (31.6) 8265 (31.4) 844 (32.7) 58 (30.4)
 2016 18088 (33.4) 8213 (32.8) 8978 (34.1) 837 (32.4) 60 (31.4)
Concomitant POP Repair N (%):
 Sling only (no POP repair) 17170 (31.7) 6525 (26.1) 9383 (35.6) 1150 (44.5) 112 (58.6) <0.001
 AP repair with sling 10495 (19.4) 4423 (17.7) 5485 (20.8) 560 (21.7) 27 (14.1)
 Apical repair with sling 2673 (4.9) 1389 (5.6) 1198 (4.6) 78 (3.0) 8 (4.2)
 AP and apical repair with sling 9865 (18.3) 4596 (18.4) 4831 (18.4) 414 (16.0) 24 (12.6)
 Hysterectomy and AP repair with sling 3801 (7.0) 2204 (8.8) 1500 (5.7) 93 (3.6) 4 (2.1)
 Hysterectomy and apical repair with sling 2564 (4.7) 1710 (6.8) 813 (3.1) 39 (1.5) 2 (1.1)
 Hysterectomy and AP and apical repair with sling 5912 (10.9) 3611 (14.4) 2182 (8.3) 111 (4.3) 8 (4.2)
 Colpocleisis with sling 1632 (3.0) 554 (2.2) 934 (3.6) 138 (5.3) 6 (3.2)

POP = pelvic organ prolapse; AP = anterior/posterior repair