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Preoperative Walking Evaluation and Postoperative Outcome

NCT06023069 · Status: RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 264

Last updated 2025-09-03

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Summary

The hypothesis is that physical activity is associated with a reduced risk of complications and death after surgery.

Self-reporting of physical activity is prone to be unreliable. In order to obtain a better picture of patients' physical activity, we intend to investigate the association between the average number of steps and postoperative outcomes. Many other objective measures of physical activity are costly and time-consuming to perform; for example, exercise tests, extensive sampling, and longer questionnaires.

The primary research question is: Do patients with a higher degree of physical activity, measured as the average number of steps recorded on the patient's mobile phone, have a reduced risk of peri/postoperative complications and death, measured as Days At Home alive at 30 days (DAH30)?

Secondary research questions include:

Is physical activity, measured as the average number of steps recorded on the patient's mobile phone, linearly linked to DAH30? Is physical activity, measured as the average number of steps recorded on the patient's mobile phone, associated with specific peri/postoperative organ impact, such as lung, heart, cerebral, infection, or kidney complications? Is physical activity, measured as the average number of steps recorded on the patient's mobile phone, also linked to long-term outcomes one year after surgery? Is physical activity, measured as the average number of steps recorded on the patient's mobile phone, solely associated with DAH30 and organ complications for specific patient groups in terms of age, comorbidities, and/or type of surgery?

Conditions

  • General Surgery
  • Perioperative Medicine

Interventions

OTHER

Number of steps recorded by mobile phone as a proxy for physical activity

This cohort is likely to have patients with many steps/day (high activity) and few steps/day (low activity)

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Max Bell · N32276 PMI/Karolinska

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-09-01
Primary Completion
2026-08-01
Completion
2026-12-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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