NCT03151616

Anticholinergic Risk Scale and Resource Use After Elective Noncardiac Surgery

Association of Anticholinergic Risk Scale and Healthcare Resource Use After Elective Noncardiac Surgery: a Population-based Cohort Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 244,976 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ottawa Hospital Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study investigates the association of preoperative anticholinergic medication exposure with healthcare resource utilization in a population-based sample of older patients enrolled in a universal pharmacare program

Detailed description

Multilevel multivariable regression analysis will be used to investigate the adjusted association between preoperative Anticholinergic Risk Scale and postoperative healthcare resource utilization. Sensitivity analyses will be used to evaluate the robustness of the primary analysis.

Conditions

• Length of Stay
• Anti Cholinergics
• Surgical Procedure, Operative
• Aged
• Epidemiology

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	anticholinergic risk scale	Risk summation scale for grading and studying anticholinergic medication exposure

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-04-01
• Primary completion: 2014-03-31
• Completion: 2014-03-31
• First posted: 2017-05-12
• Last updated: 2025-01-10
• Results posted: 2025-01-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada