Beyond Mortality: Older Frail Adults Considering Surgical Intervention

What would be useful, and which I don't see in the available abstract, is their measures for determining "frailty". One would like to be able to self-assess frailty, or assess the frailty of an older relative. Or at least, understand what measures one's doctors are using.

The actual article references https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/258...

The full (short) comment is here: https://sci-hub.tw/https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurg...

It seems like an interesting topic for discussion, but I'm not sure that this comment itself is the right focal point. Why did others upvote it?

Similarly curious.

Seems like the actual article that promoted the linked invited comment is the more substantial artifact https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/275...

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