Clinical trials: Preoperative Frailty
Frail Elderly Syndrome, Surgery
Development and Validation of a Preoperative Frailty Index Using Health Administrative Data
The investigators will create a frailty index using health administrative data available for older people having surgery. The index will be based on the Canadian Study of Health and Aging Frailty Index and standard…
- Conditions
- Frail Elderly Syndrome, Surgery, Outcomes, Predictive Value of Tests
- Trial name
- NCT03354546
- Testing
- Frailty index
- Volunteers
- 511,285 people
- Sponsor
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Patients Waiting for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery, Patients Waiting for Aortic Valve Repair or Replacement
Pre-operative Rehabilitation for Reduction of Hospitalization After Coronary Bypass and Valvular Surgery.
The PREHAB study is a clinical trial where frail patients waiting for heart surgery are randomly chosen to either receive the current standard of care or to participate in an 8-week exercise/education program at a community-based…
- Conditions
- Patients Waiting for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery, Patients Waiting for Aortic Valve Repair or Replacement, Patients Waiting for Mitral Valve Repair or Replacement, Patients Waiting for Combined Procedures. (CAGB and Valve)
- Trial name
- PREHAB (NCT02219815)
- Testing
- Prehab Intervention
- Where
- 5 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 89 people
- Sponsor
- St. Boniface Hospital