Bariatric Surgery and COVID-19

Completed

• Conditions: Bariatric Surgery Candidate; COVID-19
• Interventions: Other: COVID-19 pandemic

• Registration Number: NCT05532891
• Lead Sponsor: Imperial College London

Brief Summary

The National Bariatric Surgical Registry (NBSR) is a prospectively collected database for all patients undergoing elective bariatric surgery in the UK. It was used to identify patients that underwent elective bariatric surgery during the pandemic (one year from 1st April 2020). Characteristics of this group were compared with a pre-pandemic cohort (one year from 1st September 2018).

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-09-01
• Primary Completion: 2021-04-01
• Study Completion: 2021-04-01
• Study First Submitted: 2022-09-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-09-07
• Study First Posted: 2022-09-08
• Results First Submitted: 2022-10-07
• Status Verified: 2023-11
• Results First Submitted QC: 2023-11-30
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-11-30
• Results First Posted: 2023-12-01
• Last Update Posted: 2023-12-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 11545

Inclusion Criteria

All patients listed on National Bariatric Surgical Registry (NBSR) that underwent elective bariatric surgery during the pandemic (one year from 1st April 2020) or prior to the pandemic (one year from 1st September 2018) -

Exclusion Criteria

• Where a variable was 'not recorded' this point was excluded from analysis. For age, gender, procedure type and provider the records were 100% complete, for BMI at time of surgery there was 5% missing data and for other variables the missing value rate was 2% or lower.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Pandemic	COVID-19 pandemic	Patients that underwent elective bariatric surgery during the pandemic (one year from 1st April 2020)

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Revisions	1 year	Number of patients undergoing revisional bariatric surgery
Private	1 year	Number of patients undergoing elective bariatric surgery in the private sector

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Completed Laparoscopically	1 year	Number of cases completed laparoscopically for patients undergoing elective bariatric surgery in the NHS
Length of Stay	1 year	Length of stay for NHS patients undergoing bariatric surgery in days
Presence of Second Consultant	1 year	Presence of second consultant in elective bariatric cases undertaken in the NHS
Surgical Complications	1 year	Number of surgical complications in patients undergoing elective bariatric surgery in the NHS

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London; 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom