Postoperative Recovery in Elderly Patients Assessed With QoR-15E

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Conditions studied: Postoperative Recovery in Elderly Patients, Quality of Recovery After Elective Surgery, Perioperative Care Outcomes in Older Adults

In brief

Postoperative recovery in elderly patients is an important part of the surgical process and affects how patients feel after surgery. To date, recovery has been measured mostly with clinical outcomes, such as complications or length of stay, but not from the patient's perspective. The QoR-15 questionnaire was designed to assess recovery from the patient's point of view and has recently been validated in Spanish as the QoR-15E. This study aims to evaluate postoperative recovery in patients aged 80 years and older undergoing elective surgery with hospital admission, using the QoR-15E questionnaire. Patients will complete the questionnaire before surgery and on postoperative days 1, 2, 7, and 30. Additional assessments will include frailty and delirium scales, and postoperative complications will be recorded. Mortality will be evaluated 90 days after surgery, alongside the patient's subjective perception of their recovery.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07505758

Run by

Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Research Institute

People needed

600

Starts

2024-03-04

Expected to finish

2027-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-01

Who can join

Age: 80 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients aged 80 years or older.
• Undergoing elective surgery requiring hospital admission.
• Able to understand and provide written informed consent.

You may not qualify if…

• Inability to speak Spanish.
• Pre-existing cognitive impairment.
• Emergency or urgent surgery.
• Neurosurgical or cardiac surgical procedures.
• Ambulatory (outpatient) surgery without hospital admission.

Where it is running

• Hospital del Mar de Barcelona — Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (enrolling)
• Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron — Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (enrolling)
• Hospital Clinic de Barcelona — Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (enrolling)
• Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau — Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (enrolling)

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