Hand Grip Strength as a Marker of Frailty in Surgical Patients

NCT ID: NCT02966470

Last Updated: 2020-02-10

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

TERMINATED

Total Enrollment

52 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-02-01

Study Completion Date

2019-09-25

Brief Summary

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

Detailed Description

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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.

Conditions

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Frailty

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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General surgery patient

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

Obtain grip strength from a standardized gripometer

Intervention Type DEVICE

Obtain grip strength from a standardized gripometer, 3 times on each hand

Interventions

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Obtain grip strength from a standardized gripometer

Obtain grip strength from a standardized gripometer, 3 times on each hand

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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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
Minimum Eligible Age

60 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Yale University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Bishwajit Bhattacharya, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Yale University

Locations

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Yale School of Medicine

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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1609018398

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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