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Preparing Older Adults for Major Surgery With Preoperative Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments

NCT06184919 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2026-02-12

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Summary

The researchers will conduct observations, interviews, and focus groups with clinicians, staff and patients of the Perioperative Optimization of Senior Health (POSH) clinic, which conducts preoperative comprehensive geriatric assessments (pCGA) at UW Health to understand clinic processes and potential areas for improvement. The goal is to (1) create a process map describing clinic workflow and (2) redesign the process with healthcare providers and patients/families.

Conditions

  • Surgery
  • Aging
  • Health Care Utilization
  • Frailty

Interventions

OTHER

Process Mapping: Observations

Direct observations of the POSH clinic visit.

OTHER

Process Mapping: Interviews

Semi-structured interviews of patients and providers involved in the POSH clinic.

OTHER

Process Mapping: Focus Group

Focus group of providers and staff who conduct the POSH clinic.

OTHER

Participatory Design

Participatory design, also called "co-design" is a systems engineering approach where the researchers and participants work together in designing the workflow of an intervention. There will be two groups (design teams) of patients/caregivers and healthcare professionals per location, for a total of four groups.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Wisconsin, Madison

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Julia R Berian, MD · University of Wisconsin, Madison

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-06-14
Primary Completion
2026-09-30
Completion
2028-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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