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

NCT01278537 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 690

Last updated 2014-03-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Information

Booklet, motivational interviewing, brief advice

Sponsors & Collaborators

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

    collaborator OTHER

  • Charite University, Berlin, Germany

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Claudia Spies, MD Prof. · Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow-Klinikum and Campus Charité Mitte, Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-02-28
Primary Completion
2014-01-31
Completion
2014-02-28

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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Diseases

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