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Table 2 Hospital LOS and discharge to rehabilitation home stratified by frailty status according to the Clinical Frailty Scale and the FRAIL Scale

From: Frailty as a predictor of hospital length of stay after elective total joint replacements in elderly patients

  

Hospital length of stay

Discharge to rehabilitation center

Frailty scales (N)

 

1–2 days (8)

3–5 days (49)

> 5 days (30)

p-value

Yes (17)

No (70)

p-value

Clinical Frailty Scale

Robust

6

27

7

0.005

4

36

0.038

Not robust

2

22

23

13

34

FRAIL Scale

Robust

2

7

4

0.700

3

10

0.727

Not robust

6

42

26

14

60