NCT02975375

The Impact of Perioperative Geriatric Care on Outcomes After Elective Noncardiac Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 266,499 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ottawa Hospital Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators will conduct a population-based study using health administrative data to evaluate the impact of preoperative geriatric consultation on postoperative outcomes in older patients having elective, non-cardiac surgery

Detailed description

The investigators will use multilevel multivariable analyses to measure the association between preoperative geriatric assessment or consultation and outcomes after major elective non-cardiac surgery. Sensitivity analyses will be done to evaluate types and timing of geriatric care around surgery, as well as for effect modification based on patient and procedural factors.

Conditions

• SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE
• Aged
• Epidemiology
• Mortality

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Preoperative geriatric consult or assessment	A preoperative geriatric consult or assessment will be considered to be present if such a consult or assessment is billed by a geriatrician for a patient in the cohort within 4 months preceding surgery. For the primary analysis we will collapse both geriatric consultations and comprehensive geriatric assessments into a single exposure level.
PROCEDURE	No Preoperative geriatric consult or assessment	No assessment or consult billed in the 4 months before surgery

Timeline

• Start date: 2002-04-01
• Primary completion: 2014-03-01
• Completion: 2016-11-01
• First posted: 2016-11-29
• Last updated: 2025-03-17
• Results posted: 2025-03-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada