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NCT Number: NCT01278537

Patient Empowerment and Risk-assessed Treatment to Improve Outcome in the Elderly After Onco-surgery

The aims of this study are to investigate whether patient empowerment, including information and decision-aids adapted to the risk and the need of the elderly patient, can improve outcome in an evidence-based modular pathway in terms of

* shortened hospital stay by a reduced postoperative complication rate and * quality of life in elderly patients compared to control patients receiving standard of care.

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Key information

Conditions

Cancer Behavior Empowerment Neoplasms Social Behavior

Age range

65 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Department of Anaesthesiology, Hospital of the Ludwig - Maximilians - University of Munich, München, Germany

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients aged 65 years and older with abdominal, thoracical or urogenital cancer scheduled for surgery
  • Offered patient information and written informed consent
  • Confirmed cancer diagnosis via histology
  • Mini Mental state > 23
  • Life-expectance > 2 months

Exclusion criteria

  • Participation in another trial according to the German Drug Law 7 days to and 7 days after the operation during the study
  • No informed consent
  • Emergency patients
  • Lacking willingness to save and hand out data within the study
  • Accommodation in an institution due to an official or judicial order
  • Concurrent malignancies
  • Insufficient knowledge of the German language
  • In case of the inclusion of a PERATECS - study patient in an adjuvant therapy study during the study period, the patient will be excluded from the PERATECS-study

Treatment and study plan

Information

Behavioral

Booklet, motivational interviewing, brief advice

Primary outcomes

  1. Length of hospital stay

    Time frame: within the first month

  2. Quality of life

    Time frame: within the first year

Secondary outcomes

  1. Readmission rate

    Time frame: within the first three months

  2. Short-term complications

    Time frame: within the first months

  3. Overall mortality

    Time frame: within one year

  4. Depression

    Time frame: within the first year

  5. Stress

    Time frame: within the first month

    Stress induced by postoperative pain, lack of mobilization and PONV.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Charite University, Berlin, Germany

Other

Collaborators

  • Deutsche Krebshilfe e.V., Bonn (Germany)

Registry information

Official study title

Patient Empowerment and Risk-assessed Treatment to Improve Outcome in the Elderly After Gastrointestinal, Thoracical or Urogenital Cancer Surgery.

Acronym: PERATECS

Important dates

Study start
2011
Primary completion
2014
Study completion
2014
First posted
Jan 19, 2011
Registry last updated
Mar 14, 2014

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