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Does American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Physical Status Scale Enough in Patients Assessment

NCT00776880 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1500

Last updated 2009-12-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status scale has been used worldwide for assessing the status of patients before operation. However, merely the value of ASA scale did not give enough information of patients to determine their prognosis and improvement of outcomes. Since 1948, World Health Organization (WHO) defined health as the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Therefore, the investigators hypothesized that the ASA scale only was needed to be modified and should be replaced by a comprehensive gauge to evaluate the status of patients in depth. Based on this thought, the investigators used a new system, i.e., physical-psycho-social (PPS) scale, to assess the overall state before surgical procedures.

Conditions

  • Elective Surgery

Interventions

OTHER

ASA scale

ASA scale evaluation before operation

OTHER

PPS scale

PPS scale evaluation before operation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Nanjing Medical University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • XiaoFeng Shen, MD · Nanjing Medical University

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-01-31
Primary Completion
2009-12-31
Completion
2009-12-31

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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