Geriatric Thoracic Surgery Ambulation Challenge

Recruiting now · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Thoracic Diseases, Surgery, Therapy, Exercise

In brief

This study is examining collecting data on steps walked (ambulation) per day by thoracic surgery patients over the age of 65 years-old before surgery. The name(s) of the study device involved in this study is: * Fitbit inspire

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04630496

Run by

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

People needed

30

Starts

2021-08-25

Expected to finish

2026-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-04-13

Who can join

Age: 65 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients Aged ≥ 65 years
• Who are preparing to undergo thoracic surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH)

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who are completely non-ambulatory (i.e. wheelchair-bound-patients) *
• Those who lack capacity to consent due to cognitive disease.
• Patient for which surgery is felt to be more urgent and therefore performed earlier then our required timeframe for intervention.
• Patients with cardiac disease or angina for which formal cardiac testing is required for clearance.
• Our exclusion criteria do not include patients with gait disturbances or those who require assistance devices for ambulation.

Where it is running

• Brigham and Women's Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States (enrolling)
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — Boston, Massachusetts, United States (enrolling)

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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