Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02835053
Frailty and Postoperative Outcomes After Emergency General Surgery
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 150,000 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 65 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The investigators will examine the association between preoperative frailty and postoperative outcomes and resource utilization after emergency general surgery.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Frailty | Participants will be defined as frail based on the Johns Hopkins ACG Frailty Defining Diagnoses Indicator, which will be applied to available health administrative data in the 3 years preceding index hospital admission. If no frailty defining diagnoses are present participants will be defined as not frail |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2002-04-01
- Primary completion
- 2014-03-01
- Completion
- 2014-03-01
- First posted
- 2016-07-15
- Last updated
- 2016-07-15
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Canada
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02835053. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.