NCT04418271

Prehabilitation of Elderly Patients With Frailty Syndrome Before Elective Surgery (PRAEP-GO)

Prehabilitation of Elderly Frail or Pre-frail Patients Prior to Elective Surgery - a Randomized Controlled Multicenter Study (PRAEP-Go)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,199 (actual)
• Sponsor: Charite University, Berlin, Germany · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to evaluate the effect of a shared decision-making conference and three-week prehabilitation program on the outcome "care dependency" one year after surgery. The cost-effectiveness of the intervention will also be evaluated in this N = 1400 patient, national multicenter, assessor-blinded, randomized, pragmatic, controlled, parallel-group, clinical trial. The objective of PRÄP-GO is to establish and employ a suitable preoperative case-care management system to improve the short and long-term outcome of elderly surgical patients with signs of a frailty syndrome, improving postoperative quality of life and reducing care dependency by a three-week individualized prehabilitation program.

Conditions

• Frailty
• Frail Elderly

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Prehabilitation- new form of care	The participants in the intervention group take part in a shared decision-making (SDM) conference to plan the intervention. The therapeutic content of the prehabilitation is defined individually for each patient in the SDM conference. Prehabilitation will be a structured and individually tailored 3-week program.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-06-30
• Primary completion: 2024-08-01
• Completion: 2024-12-19
• First posted: 2020-06-05
• Last updated: 2025-02-19

Locations

23 sites across 1 country: Germany