Hand Grip Strength as a Marker of Frailty in Surgical Patients
- Conditions
- Frailty
- Interventions
- Device: Obtain grip strength from a standardized gripometer
- Registration Number
- NCT02966470
- Lead Sponsor
- Yale University
- 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.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- TERMINATED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 52
- General surgery patient admitted to the Section of General Surgery, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care
- Age >60
- Pregnancy
- Untreated or metastatic malignancy
- Prisoners
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description General surgery patient Obtain grip strength from a standardized gripometer General surgery patient admitted to the Section of General Surgery, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care who are over 60.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 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.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Yale School of Medicine
🇺🇸New Haven, Connecticut, United States