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Frailty and Postoperative Outcomes After Emergency General Surgery

NCT02835053 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 150000

Last updated 2016-07-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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

Conditions

  • General Surgery
  • Geriatrics
  • Outcomes Research

Interventions

OTHER

Frailty

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2002-04-30
Primary Completion
2014-03-31
Completion
2014-03-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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