Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00982683
Association of Lunar Phases With Post-surgical Morbidity
Association of Lunar Phases With Post-surgical Hemorrhagic Rate
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 26,244 (actual)
- Sponsor
- IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria San Martino - IST Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The potential influence of lunar phases on human life has been widely discussed by the lay press. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a possible relation between the lunar cycle and the hemorrhagic complication rate and surgical outcome. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The investigators tested this hypothesis by evaluating the complication rate for 18760 patients who underwent surgery from January 2001 to December 2008 (103 lunar phases) at the National Institute for Cancer Research in Genoa. The date of definitive surgery was allocated to the lunar phases.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 1998-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2009-05-01
- Completion
- 2009-06-01
- First posted
- 2009-09-23
- Last updated
- 2009-09-23
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Italy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00982683. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.