Frailty and Postoperative Outcomes After Emergency General Surgery

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Geriatrics; General Surgery; Outcomes Research

Treatments: Other: Frailty

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02835053

DM3

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will examine the association between preoperative frailty and postoperative outcomes and resource utilization after emergency general surgery.

Enrollment: 150,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All residents of Ontario aged more than 65 years on their surgery date with valid provincial health insurance who have an emergency general surgery procedure (large bowel surgery, small bowel surgery, cholecystectomy, control of hemorrhage from duodenal ulcer, lysis of adhesions, appendectomy, laparotomy)

Exclusion criteria

• No valid provincial health insurance

Trial design

150,000 participants in 1 patient group

Emergency General Surgery

Description:

All patients having emergency general surgery procedures as defined by Scott et al (JAMA Surgery 2016)

Treatment:

Other: Frailty