Hand Grip Strength as a Marker of Frailty in Surgical Patients

Yale University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Frailty

Treatments: Device: Obtain grip strength from a standardized gripometer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02966470

1609018398

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to assess if grip strength can be used as a single, objective surrogate of frailty assessment in the surgical population.

Full description

Frailty is associated with worse outcomes. Current screening surveys are cumbersome, most containing multiple components. For frail patients particularly, it can be difficult to ascertain all the information requested. There is a need for a simple, one step, objective screening measure of frailty. There is some evidence in the medicine patients that grip strength may be related to frailty, but no such information is available for surgical patients.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• General surgery patient admitted to the Section of General Surgery, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care
• Age >60

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy
• Untreated or metastatic malignancy
• Prisoners

Trial design

52 participants in 1 patient group

General surgery patient

Description:

General surgery patient admitted to the Section of General Surgery, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care who are over 60.

Treatment:

Device: Obtain grip strength from a standardized gripometer