If you’ve ever stared down a frail octogenarian on your pre-op list for an occipitocervical fusion (OCF) and thought, “How risky is risky, really?” — this study’s got your back (and your C0–C2).
In a head-to-head matchup worthy of prime-time, the research team pitted two frailty heavyweights — the Risk Analysis Index (RAI) and the Modified 5-Item Frailty Index (mFI-5) — against each other to see which better predicts post-op mayhem after OCF.
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