Frailty and Postoperative Outcomes After Emergency General Surgery

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

150000 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2002-04-30

Study Completion Date

2014-03-31

Brief Summary

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

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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General Surgery Geriatrics Outcomes Research

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Emergency General Surgery

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

Frailty

Intervention Type OTHER

Participants will be defined as frail based on the Johns Hopkins ACG Frailty Defining Diagnoses Indicator, which will be applied to available health administrative data in the 3 years preceding index hospital admission. If no frailty defining diagnoses are present participants will be defined as not frail

Interventions

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Frailty

Participants will be defined as frail based on the Johns Hopkins ACG Frailty Defining Diagnoses Indicator, which will be applied to available health administrative data in the 3 years preceding index hospital admission. If no frailty defining diagnoses are present participants will be defined as not frail

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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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)