NCT04160234

Preoperative Risk Assessment in the Elderly

Web-based Preoperative Risk Assessment in the Elderly: a Pilot-study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: RWTH Aachen University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

PrepTAB aims to determine whether elderly patients are able to complete 4 preoperative risk assessment questionnaires within a web-based survey.

Detailed description

Elderly patients are the most rapidly increasing group among surgical admissions. They are prone to a higher risk, because of predisposing risk factors. A comprehensive preoperative risk assessment is recommended by the European Society of Anaesthesiologists guideline, but time-consuming and usually not performed at present. A telemedical approach would enable an out-of hospital risk assessment before hospital admission and provide important information without the need for additional in-hospital resources. The feasibility of the completion of a web-based questionnaire by elderly patients, within a controlled in-hospital setting is required, as a base for a telemedical approach.

Conditions

• Preoperative Risk Assessment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	web-based questionnaires	Patients will be asked to complete web-based questionnaires on a tablet computer

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-11-22
• Primary completion: 2021-12-01
• Completion: 2022-01-01
• First posted: 2019-11-12
• Last updated: 2021-02-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany