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UnknownNCT01654900

Mid-term Survival and Quality of Life of Elderly Patients Undergoing Open Heart Surgery

Mid -Term Survival and Quality of Life of Elderly Patients Undergoing Open Heart Surgery

Status
Unknown
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
207 (estimated)
Sponsor
Hadassah Medical Organization · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
75 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

The purposes of the investigators study is to examine the overall survival and quality of life in elderly patients (\> 75 years) undergoing open heart surgery at Hadassah medical center between 2008-2011. All alive patients will be phone interviewed using the 36-item short form health survey. Results will be compared to similar health survey results (36-SF)obtained from a group of Israeli adults who had no open heart surgery (controlled group). The investigators hypothesize that elderly patients achieve improvement in quality of life after open heart surgery with acceptable operative morbidity and mortality.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
OTHERNo intervention in this study

Timeline

Start date
2012-10-01
First posted
2012-08-01
Last updated
2012-08-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01654900. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.