Hewitt J, et al. - The impact of frailty on clinical mortality, readmission rate and length of stay for emergency surgical patients of all ages was evaluated via conducting a multi-center prospective cohort study on 2,279 patients (median age 54 years [IQR 36–72]; 56% female) who were admitted to acute surgical units. Researchers observed significantly poorer patient outcomes in correlation with worsening frailty at any age, these included mortality in unselected acute surgical admissions. They recommend integration of assessment of frailty into emergency surgical practice to support prognostication and implementation of strategies to improve outcomes.