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Prehabilitation of Elderly Frail or Pre-frail Patients Prior to Elective Surgery - a Randomized Controlled Multicenter Study (PRAEP-Go)
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Prehabilitation- new form of care for Frailty and Frail Elderly. Completed, enrolled 1,199 participants across 23 sites.
Detailed Summary
The aim of the study is to evaluate the effect of a shared decision-making conference and three-week prehabilitation program on the outcome "care dependency" one year after surgery. The cost-effectiveness of the intervention will also be evaluated in this N = 1400 patient, national multicenter, assessor-blinded, randomized, pragmatic, controlled, parallel-group, clinical trial. The objective of PRÄP-GO is to establish and employ a suitable preoperative case-care management system to improve the short and long-term outcome of elderly surgical patients with signs of a frailty syndrome, improving postoperative quality of life and reducing care dependency by a three-week individualized prehabilitation program.
Study Details
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Interventions
The participants in the intervention group take part in a shared decision-making (SDM) conference to plan the intervention. The therapeutic content of the prehabilitation is defined individually for each patient in the SDM conference. Prehabilitation will be a structured and individually tailored 3-week program.