Hand Grip Strength as a Marker of Frailty in Surgical Patients

Frailty Clinical Trial

Official title:

Hand Grip Strength as a Marker of Frailty in Surgical Patients

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Terminated

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02966470
• Other study ID #: 1609018398
• Status: Terminated
• Start date: February 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: September 25, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: February 2020
• Source: Yale University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aims to assess if grip strength can be used as a single, objective surrogate of frailty assessment in the surgical population.

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 information / eligibility

• Status: Terminated
• Enrollment: 52
• Est. completion date: September 25, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: September 25, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 60 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• General surgery patient admitted to the Section of General Surgery, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care

• Age >60

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy

• Untreated or metastatic malignancy

• Prisoners

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Frailty

Intervention

Device:
• Obtain grip strength from a standardized gripometer
Obtain grip strength from a standardized gripometer, 3 times on each hand

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Yale School of Medicine	New Haven	Connecticut

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Yale University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	linear regression of grip strength to frailty survey score	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.	10 minutes at the time of admission