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The Impact of Perioperative Geriatric Care on Outcomes After Elective Noncardiac Surgery

NCT02975375 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 266499

Last updated 2025-03-17

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Summary

The investigators will conduct a population-based study using health administrative data to evaluate the impact of preoperative geriatric consultation on postoperative outcomes in older patients having elective, non-cardiac surgery

Conditions

  • SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE
  • Aged
  • Epidemiology
  • Mortality

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Preoperative geriatric consult or assessment

A preoperative geriatric consult or assessment will be considered to be present if such a consult or assessment is billed by a geriatrician for a patient in the cohort within 4 months preceding surgery. For the primary analysis we will collapse both geriatric consultations and comprehensive geriatric assessments into a single exposure level.

PROCEDURE

No Preoperative geriatric consult or assessment

No assessment or consult billed in the 4 months before surgery

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
2016-11-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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