A Retrospective Cohort Study to Evaluate Adding Biomarkers to the Risk Analysis Index of Frailty

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INTRODUCTION: The Risk Analysis Index (RAI) is a frailty assessment tool associated with adverse postoperative outcomes including 180 and 365-d mortality. However, the RAI has been criticized for only containing subjective inputs rather than including more objective components such as biomarkers.

METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study to assess the benefit of adding common biomarkers to the RAI using the Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program (VASQIP) database. RAI plus body mass index (BMI), creatinine, hematocrit, and albumin were evaluated as individual and composite variables on 180-d postoperative mortality.

RESULTS: Among 480,731 noncardiac cases in VASQIP from 2010 to 2014, 324,320 (67%) met our inclusion criteria. Frail patients (RAI ≥30) made up to 13.0% of the sample. RAI demonstrated strong discrimination for 180-d mortality (c = 0.839 [0.836-0.843]). Discrimination significantly improved with the addition of Hematocrit (c = 0.862 [0.859-0.865]) and albumin (c = 0.870 [0.866-0.873]), but not for body mass index (BMI) or creatinine. However, calibration plots demonstrate that the improvement was primarily at high RAI values where the model overpredicts observed mortality.

CONCLUSIONS: While RAI's ability to predict the risk of 180-d postoperative mortality improves with the addition of certain biomarkers, this only observed in patients classified as very frail (RAI >49). Because very frail patients have significantly elevated observed and predicted mortality, the improved discrimination is likely of limited clinical utility for a frailty screening tool.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:292

Enthalten in:

The Journal of surgical research - 292(2023) vom: 15. Dez., Seite 130-136

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Estock, Jamie L [VerfasserIn]
Pandalai, Prakash K [VerfasserIn]
Johanning, Jason M [VerfasserIn]
Youk, Ada O [VerfasserIn]
Varley, Patrick R [VerfasserIn]
Arya, Shipra [VerfasserIn]
Massarweh, Nader N [VerfasserIn]
Hall, Daniel E [VerfasserIn]

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AYI8EX34EU
Albumins
Biomarkers
Creatinine
Frailty
Frailty assessment
Journal Article
Postoperative mortality prediction
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Risk analysis index

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Date Completed 23.10.2023

Date Revised 24.10.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jss.2023.07.034

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM361177917