Participants
dyspnea, cancer, non-cardiac thoracic, cognitive decline, weight loss
CANCER, REMISSION, CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, RENAL INSUFFICIENCY
Adult Veteran patients scheduled for coronary artery bypass graft, cardiac valve surgery, non-cardiac thoracic surgery, or major abdominal surgery (defined by a procedure that plans to violate the peritoneum or retroperitoneum) with at least mild frailty as measured by the Risk Analysis Index (RAI). The RAI is a validated, weighted, 14-item survey instrument based on the deficit accumulation model of frailty assessing age, sex, living location, appetite, weight loss, activities of daily living in 4 dimensions, cognitive decline, renal insufficiency, dyspnea, congestive heart failure and cancer not in remission (