Conflating Disability, Frailty, and Multimorbidity in Adult Spinal Deformity Patients
Frailty was rare (6%) in this multicenter cohort of patients. Conflation of disability and frailty is a real risk due to overlap in measures of both conditions. Disability and frailty do not form discrete categories but rather exist along a continuum, underscoring the need to abandon categorical labels in favor of continuous measures for both clinical assessment and research settings.
Authors
- Lawrence G. Lenke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5595-4958)
- Justin S. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7314-7896)
- Renaud Lafage (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4820-1835)
- Pierce D. Nunley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8670-5532)
- Christopher Pearson Ames (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2618-3098)
- Jeffrey M. Hills (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1191-1139)
- Alex Soroceanu
- Francis Lovecchio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5236-1420)
- Breton Line (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0395-1066)
- Themistocles Stavros Protopsaltis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4978-2600)
- Eric O. Klineberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1408-106X)
- Michael P. Kelly (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6221-7406)
- Jeffrey Lynn Gum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0471-9437)
- Gregory M. Mundis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1483-7245)
- Richard A. Hostin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4558-003X)
- Shay R. Bess (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9697-8999)
- Munish Chandra Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4711-4377)
- Khaled M. Kebaish (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1235-6202)
- Virginie Lafage (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0119-7111)
- Han Jo Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7482-6994)
- David Kojo Hamilton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7713-7252)
- Frank J. Schwab (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2307-3037)
- Robert K. Eastlack (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2359-1707)
- Christopher I. Shaffrey
- Peter G. Passias
Institutions
- Hospital for Special Surgery (US)
- Northwell Health (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- University of Calgary (CA)
- Duke University (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Norton Healthcare (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Lenox Hill Hospital (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Spine Institute of Louisiana (US)
- Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children (US)
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (US)
- Scripps Clinic (US)
- Duke University Hospital (US)
- Rocky Mountain MS Center (US)
- New York University Langone Orthopedic Hospital (US)
- The University of Texas at San Antonio (US)
- University of Virginia (US)
- Columbia University (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Spine
- Published
- 2025-09-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/brs.0000000000005508
- Primary Topic
- Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00