Development and Validation of a Morbidity Index for Complications in Minor and Major Abdominal Surgery

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00782704

Enrollment

219

Registered

2008-10-31

Start date

2008-10-31

Completion date

2009-12-31

Last updated

2015-02-10

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Conditions

Postoperative Complications

Keywords

A self-administered questionnaire to collect data from patients, physicians and nurses about the severity of postoperative surgical complications., Based on this questionnaire we will develop the morbidity index

Brief summary

The aim is to develop and validate a morbidity index for postoperative complications in patients undergoing visceral surgery.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Age: ≥ 18 years * Capacity to act and no legal guardian * Patients with any underlying disease admitted to the Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery of the University Hospital of Zurich with planned minor or major visceral surgery * German language as daily language.

Exclusion criteria

* Patients with cognitive difficulties and diseases, which may yield unreliable answers * Patients unable to read and write

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
to develop and validate a morbidity index	preoeprativ and one day before discharge

Countries

Switzerland

Outcome results