The Impact of Frailty on Outcomes of Elderly Patients After Major Vascular Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

ObjectiveTo evaluate the quality of published evidence of all frailty tools in major vascular surgery and to determine the effect of frailty on short and long-term outcomes after vascular procedures.MethodsMEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Database and Scopus (updated on May 12, 2018) were searched for studies evaluating the effect of frailty in vascular surgery and data were extracted from the included studies. A modified Newcastle-Ottawa scale was...