Status:
COMPLETED
Improvement of Perioperative Care of Elderly Patients
Lead Sponsor:
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Conditions:
Perioperative Care
Eligibility:
All Genders
65+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The focus of this study is the development of a perioperative treatment concept for elderly patients, based on individual necessities and risk factors, aiming to improve patient outcome. The planned i...
Detailed Description
In Germany every second inpatient surgical intervention is performed on patients aged 60 years and above. These patients often offer an extensive set of risk factors such as frailty, malnutrition, poo...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Age \>64 years
- Written informed patients consent
- forthcoming elective surgery
- Time interval from inclusion to appointed surgery at least 5 days
Exclusion
- Refusal of consent
- Illiteracy
- Poor knowledge ofGerman language
- Mental disability
- Vision handicap (not corrected)
- Hearing handicap (not corrected)
- Benzodiazepine abuse
- Drug/ substance abuse
- Psychosis
- Parkinson disease
- Emergency surgery
- Planned postoperative ICU treatment
- Planned inpatient stay 1 night
- Cerebral surgery
- Ophthalmological surgery
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 1 2017
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
May 14 2020
Estimated Enrollment :
310 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03325413
Start Date
November 1 2017
End Date
May 14 2020
Last Update
May 18 2021
Active Locations (1)
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Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Hamburg, Germany