Evaluation of Co-morbidity Scales (Ko-MoSkau)

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postoperative Mortality

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01810133

Ko-MoSkaU

Details and patient eligibility

About

Peri-operative mortality depends on the patient's co-morbidities. ASA Physical Status (American Society of Anesthesiology) is the most commonly scale to assess this parameter and has yet been repeatedly criticized in the past for its discriminatory power.

Few studies have shown both the ASA physical status and the more detailed and more time-consuming Charlson Comorbidity Index to be equivalent in certain patient populations.

The purpose of this observational study is to compare the predictive value of both scales with regards to all-cause in-hospital mortality and hospital length of stay.

Enrollment: 230,034 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 day to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. All male and female Patients who underwent anesthesia within the study time period (January 2006 and December 2011) in the Charité - University Berlin, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine CVK/CCM.

Exclusion criteria

None

Trial design

230,034 participants in 1 patient group

Anesthesia patients

Description:

All patients undergoing general anesthesia between January 2006 and December 2011 in Charité - University Berlin