Association of Lunar Phases With Post-surgical Morbidity

IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria San Martino - IST Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hemorrhage

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00982683

Moon-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The potential influence of lunar phases on human life has been widely discussed by the lay press. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a possible relation between the lunar cycle and the hemorrhagic complication rate and surgical outcome.

PATIENTS AND METHODS:

The investigators tested this hypothesis by evaluating the complication rate for 18760 patients who underwent surgery from January 2001 to December 2008 (103 lunar phases) at the National Institute for Cancer Research in Genoa.

The date of definitive surgery was allocated to the lunar phases.

Enrollment: 26,244 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• None

Exclusion criteria

• None