Frailty and Post-operative Complications in Older Surgical Patients: The Implication of Frailty and Preoperative Risk Assessment

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

25000 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-06-01

Study Completion Date

2022-12-31

Brief Summary

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Frailty is prevalent in older adults and may be a better predictor of post-operative morbidity and mortality than chronological age. Preoperative risk factors and physiological reserves were assessed on patients more than 70 years old who are scheduled for surgery under general or regional anesthesia. The aim of this retrospective analysis was to examine the impact of relevant geriatric assessments on adverse outcomes in older surgical patients.

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Detailed Description

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The goal of this study is to analyze the effect of frailty status on postoperative outcomes. These include postoperative complications (only ICD-10 coded diagnoses), length of hospitalization (ward/ICU), disposition, and survival. The project will also attempt to find synergism between a positive frailty status and common medical conditions (e.g. diabetes, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, dementia, and kidney disease), as well as anesthesiological and surgical processes (e.g. duration and type of anesthesia, surgical risk, and surgical discipline). Different assessment tools will be analyzed regarding their predictive power and clinical practicability. This should help improve preoperative risk assessment and allow for the multidimensional (physical, cognitive, social) identification of relevant frailty characteristics in the perioperative setting. All outcome parameters, including admission and discharge periods, will be collected using coded information from our hospital database. There will be no follow-up measurements after hospital discharge.

Conditions

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Frailty Surgery Older Patients

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Older robust surgical patients

Male and female patients with age 65 years and above scheduled for surgery, which are robust according to Fried's Modified Frailty Score.

No interventions assigned to this group

Older pre-frail surgical patients

Male and female patients with age 65 years and above scheduled for surgery, which are pre-frail according to Fried's Modified Frailty Score.

No interventions assigned to this group

Older frail surgical patients

Male and female patients with age 65 years and above scheduled for surgery, which are frail according to Fried's Modified Frailty Score.

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Male and female patients with age 70 years and above scheduled for surgery in the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Minimum Eligible Age

70 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No