Predicting 5-Year Mortality After Prosthetic Joint Infection Using a 30-Item Accumulated Frailty Index in a 13,371-Patient Multicenter Cohort
Kole Joachim, Brandon Gettleman, Joshua Wiener, Christopher Hamad, Adrian Lin, Amanda Perrotta, Sumin Jeong, Othneil Sparks, Ezekiel Dingle, Alexandra Stavrakis, Alexander B. Christ · 2026
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Kole Joachim and colleagues present a two thousand twenty-six study predicting five-year death risk after prosthetic joint infection. The work uses health records for a large multicenter group of patients. It builds a thirty-item frailty index covering illnesses, body deficits, medicines, and daily function.
The model was trained on most of the records and checked on the rest. Both frailty score and age predicted later death on their own. Estimated risk ranged from very low in younger, nonfrail patients to about one half in older, frail ones. Clinicians get an objective tool for planning care instead of relying on judgment alone.
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| CREATOR | Kole Joachim, Brandon Gettleman, Joshua Wiener, Christopher Hamad, Adrian Lin, Amanda Perrotta, Sumin Jeong, Othneil Sparks, Ezekiel Dingle, Alexandra Stavrakis, Alexander B. Christ |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |