ArticleGlobal spine journal2026
A High Frailty Burden is a Strong Predictor of Adverse Postoperative Outcomes in Geriatric Lumbar Spine Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
Article in Global spine journal, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Comment on "A High Frailty Burden Is a Strong Predictor of Adverse Postoperative Outcomes in Geriatric Lumbar Spine Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study".Global spine journal · 2026Article
- Letter to "A High Frailty Burden is a Strong Predictor of Adverse Postoperative Outcomes in Geriatric Lumbar Spine Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study".Global spine journal · 2026Article
- Benchmarking deep learning pipelines for surgical instrument segmentation in endoscopic spine surgery: cross-dataset evaluation under deployment-realistic conditions.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026Article
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Abstract
Study DesignRetrospective cohort study.ObjectivesTo determine whether the 5-item modified frailty index (mFI-5) is associated with in-hospital complications and 1-year adverse events among patients aged ≥70 years who underwent lumbar spine surgery.MethodsWe retrospectively reviewed data from patients aged ≥70 years who underwent lumbar spine surgery at a single tertiary referral hospital from January 2020 to December 2021, with 1-year follow-up. Participants were stratified into two groups based on an mFI-5 score of 3. The primary outcome was the odds of in-hospital complications, and the secondary outcome was the odds of 1-year adverse events. To account for confounding variables and identify independent predictors, we applied inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) and multivariable logistic regression.ResultsAmong 967 eligible older adults, 132 (13.6%) met the criteria for severe frailty (mFI-5 score ≥3). Following IPTW adjustment, severe frailty was significantly and independently associated with in-hospital complications (odds ratio: 1.792, 95% confidence interval: 1.243-2.585;
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