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Preoperative prediction of functional status after surgery is essential when practicing patient-centered medicine.

We aimed to evaluate the incidence and factors associated with postoperative functional disability or all-cause mortality. Secondarily, we sought to describe the trajectory of disability in this population.

Adults aged ≥ 55 yr who underwent elective noncardiac surgery under general anesthesia in a tertiary care hospital were followed up one year after surgery.

Pre- and intraoperative factors associated with a composite outcome of postoperative functional disability or all-cause mortality were assessed using a multiple logistic regression.

The sequential changes in the 12-item World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0 score were described and stratified by surgical invasiveness.