Frailty versus neurologic severity as predictors of perioperative outcomes among patients undergoing surgery for degenerative cervical myelopathy.
BACKGROUND Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) is a common cause of spinal cord dysfunction. Frailty metrics such as the five-item modified Frailty Index (mFI-5) are increasingly used for risk stratification, so we investigated whether frailty independently predicts outcomes after accounting for underlying neurologi...