Enhanced recovery in colorectal surgery: a multicentre study from the Spanish Working group
Completed
- Conditions
- Colorectal diseaseDigestive System
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN16397735
- Lead Sponsor
- Spanish Working Group on Multimodal Rehabilitation (Grupo Español de Rehabilitacion Multimodal [GERM]) (Spain)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 300
Inclusion Criteria
1. Aged 18 years or over, either sex
2. Programmed for surgery for colorectal cancer without the need for a stoma or any further surgical procedure
Exclusion Criteria
1. Need for emergency surgery
2. American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) class IV
3. Need for a colostomy or ileostomy
4. Inability to provide informed consent
5. Diabetes
6. Slow evacuation previously documented by a digestive medicine unit
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Morbi-mortality, measured from operation to two months after surgery
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Hospital stay, measured from operation up to release from hospital