Translation and validation of the Edmonton Frail Scale and Edmonton Frail Scale - Acute Care for German language useA study on the validation of frailty screening instruments in the preoperative phase of anesthesiologically accompanied procedures

• Conditions: Frailty syndromeDementia; R54; F00; F01; F02; F03; Senility; Dementia in Alzheimer disease; Vascular dementia; Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere

• Registration Number: DRKS00026267
• Lead Sponsor: niversitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus LübeckKlinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-09-24
• Study Completion: 2022-12-17
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

good knowledge of German in understanding and language
- Age = 65 years of age
- planned surgical intervention with anesthesia procedures

Exclusion Criteria

- Immobility
- disabling trauma to the lower extremities
- disabling trauma to the writing hand or dominant arm
- Ignorance of numbers or a clock dial
- Language barrier with severely impaired communication
- Diseases with difficulty understanding, severe mental retardation, highly advanced dementia
- Blindness, severe visual impairment
- Deafness, strongest hearing loss with impossible communication
- Emergency/ very urgent surgical indication (within 0 to 6 hours, N0-N2)
- Participation in another interventional study or AMG/MPG study

Study & Design

• Study Type: observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Frailty criterion according to EFS (fit, vulnerable, frail (mild, moderate, severe))<br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
categorical and correlative agreement by means of frailty criterion according to Fried and CFS, as well as VR-12 and SIS<br>