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Reducing Deaths After Surgery in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Pilot Cluster Randomised Trial

NCT06932653 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2025-04-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

SurgPASS is a pilot randomised cluster trial utilising a pre-operative checklist with the aim of reducing deaths after surgery. If SurgPASS is successful, the intervention will be implemented in a separate full-scale cluster randomised trial.

Conditions

  • Post-operative Complications

Interventions

OTHER

SurgPASS - intervention

SurgPASS consists of a preoperative surgical passport used for any patients requiring emergency laparotomy, a simulation training course and local clinical champions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Lagos State University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University Teaching Hospital of Kigali

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Ministry of Health, Ghana

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Université d'Abomey-Calavi

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Birmingham

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Aneel Bhangu · University of Birmingham

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-06-01
Primary Completion
2025-12-31
Completion
2026-01-31

Countries

  • Benin
  • Ghana
  • India
  • Nigeria
  • Rwanda

Study Locations

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