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Risk Assessment for Postoperative Delirium

NCT02377115 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 54

Last updated 2018-04-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Postoperative delirium (POD) - a temporary state of confusion - is a frequent complication of surgery, which most commonly occurs in elderly patients. A tablet computer application that may assist preoperative risk screening for POD was developed at the University Hospital Basel in 2014. This study aims to investigate whether the computer program may assess the risk of a patient to develop POD.

Conditions

  • Postoperative Delirium

Interventions

OTHER

Tablet computer application

Preoperatively, all study participants (entire cohort) will perform in the self-administered tablet computer-based tool to assess the risk of developing POD.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nicolai Goettel, MD · University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-03-31
Primary Completion
2015-12-31
Completion
2016-04-30

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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