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NCT Number: NCT02835053

Frailty and Postoperative Outcomes After Emergency General Surgery

The investigators will examine the association between preoperative frailty and postoperative outcomes and resource utilization after emergency general surgery.

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Key information

Conditions

General Surgery Geriatrics Outcomes Research

Age range

65 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 4E9, Canada

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • All residents of Ontario aged more than 65 years on their surgery date with valid provincial health insurance who have an emergency general surgery procedure (large bowel surgery, small bowel surgery, cholecystectomy, control of hemorrhage from duodenal ulcer, lysis of adhesions, appendectomy, laparotomy)

Exclusion criteria

  • No valid provincial health insurance

Treatment and study plan

Frailty

Other

Participants will be defined as frail based on the Johns Hopkins ACG Frailty Defining Diagnoses Indicator, which will be applied to available health administrative data in the 3 years preceding index hospital admission. If no frailty defining diagnoses are present participants will be defined as not frail

Primary outcomes

  1. Mortality

    Time frame: 365 days (from date of surgery)

    Mortality events will be identified from the registered person's database in Ontario from the date of surgery to 365 days after surgery, at which time participants will be censored

Secondary outcomes

  1. Hospital length of stay

    Time frame: day of surgery to 365 days after surgery

    Number of days in hospital from date of surgery to 365 days after surgery

  2. Intensive care unit admission

    Time frame: from date of surgery to 30 days after surgery

    Presence of a special care unit admission from the Discharge abstract database from the date of surgery to 30 days after surgery

  3. Institutional discharge

    Time frame: Date of surgery to hospital discharge or 365 days after surgery (at which time participants will be censored)

    Discharge disposition to an institution in the discharge abstract database

  4. Costs

    Time frame: day of surgery to 365 days after surgery

    Total costs incurred by the provincial health care system from the day of surgery to 365 days after surgery

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2002
Primary completion
2014
Study completion
2014
First posted
Jul 15, 2016
Registry last updated
Jul 15, 2016

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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