Walk With a Doc: Enhanced Recovery Walking Program for Surgical Inpatients and Wellness Program for Surgical Residents (WWAD)

Richard Perugini

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Complication of Surgical Procedure; Resident Physicians

Treatments: Other: Measuring number of post-operative steps

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05211531

H00019609

Details and patient eligibility

About

Program studying the number of steps post-operative patients need to take to prevent post-operative complications. Also studying surgical resident wellness program that provides extra time to ambulate with inpatients.

Full description

Program studying the number of steps post-operative patients need to take to prevent post-operative complications. Patients receive a pedometer while inpatient to measure their daily steps, which is recorded in the electronic medical record.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Post-operative surgical patient with an over 24 hour post-operative stay in the hospital
• Safe to ambulate with/without assistance

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to ambulate
• Bedbound