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The aim of the current investigation was therefore to compare the ability of several frailty scores to predict adverse outcomes in surgically managed isolated TSI patients without spinal cord injury.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>All adult patients (18 years or older) who suffered an isolated TSI due to blunt trauma, and required surgical management, were extracted from the 2013\u20132021 Trauma Quality Improvement Program database. The ability of the Orthopedic Frailty Score (OFS), the Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS), the 11-factor (11-mFI) and 5-factor (5-mFI) modified frailty index, as well as the Johns Hopkins Frailty Indicator to predict adverse outcomes was compared based on the area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve (AUC). Subgroup analyses were also performed on patients who were \u2265\u200965 years old and those who were injured due to a ground-level fall (GLF).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A total of 39,449 patients were selected from the TQIP database. The 5-mFI and 11-mFI outperformed all other frailty scores when predicting in-hospital mortality (5-mFI AUC: 0.73) (11-mFI AUC: 0.73), any complication (5-mFI AUC: 0.65) (11-mFI AUC: 0.65), and FTR (5-mFI AUC: 0.75) (11-mFI AUC: 0.75). Among the 14,257 geriatric patients, however, the OFS demonstrated the highest predictive ability for in-hospital mortality (AUC: 0.65). The OFS (AUC: 0.64) also performed on the same level as both the 5-mFI (AUC: 0.63) and the 11-mFI (AUC: 0.63) when predicting FTR in this population. 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