Development, Validation and Clinical Application of a Recovery Scale After Cardiac Surgery: the Fuwai-CRS (Fuwai- Cardiac Recovery Scale)

National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiac Surgery; Postoperative Recovery; PROM

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05782036

2022-1882

Details and patient eligibility

About

Improving patient recovery after cardiac surgery is a critical priority. While improved surgical techniques have substantially reduced procedural mortality over the past decades, the inherent physiological insult of median sternotomy, cardiopulmonary bypass, and myocardial manipulation continues to impose significant challenges in patient's recovery experience, such as pain, sleep disorders. Paradoxically, this critical recovery phase remains underexplored, as traditional outcome metrics predominantly focus on mortality and major morbidity endpoints. However, no cardiac surgery-specific tools currently exist to adequately capture postoperative recovery experience, creating barriers to optimal care. Accordingly, the investigators aim to develop and validate a recovery scale after cardiac surgery and evaluate its clinical performance compared to the generic scale (QoR-15)

Enrollment: 3,043 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Elective cardiac surgery

Exclusion criteria

• Emergency surgery
• Age ≤ 18 years
• Refuse to participate in this study
• prolonged postoperative mechanical ventilation exceeding 24 hours reoperation or perioperative death

Trial design

3,043 participants in 3 patient groups

Cohort 1: Item generation

Cohort 2: Item finalization and validation

Cohort 3: Clinical application