Frailty
Conditions
Keywords
surgical outcomes
Brief summary
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
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.
Interventions
DEVICEObtain grip strength from a standardized gripometer
Obtain grip strength from a standardized gripometer, 3 times on each hand
Sponsors
Yale University
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
60 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| linear regression of grip strength to frailty survey score | 10 minutes at the time of admission | Their frailty survey and grip strength scores will also be recorded for analysis. We will analyze the data by linear regression of grip strength to frailty survey score. |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed