Understanding Performance: Enhancing Recovery as Surgeons

Burnout, Professional Clinical Trial

— ERAS  

Official title:

Use of Biometric Data to Understand Surgeon Performance, Strain, and Recovery

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05029674
• Other study ID #: 58625
• Status: Completed
• Start date: March 20, 2022
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: March 2024
• Source: Stanford University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Reliably achieving peak performance requires balancing the strain of the prior day with sufficient recovery to be ready for the next day. Surgery has a long standing tradition long hours of hard work often at the expense of adequate sleep. Decreased sleep and recovery has physiologic consequences which can be measured using biometric data. The goal of this study is to quantify surgeon performance and biometric data to understand how modifiable behaviors can maximize recovery and performance.

Description:

Participants will be asked to wear a biometric sensor for six months. The biometric sensor, namely, 'The Whoop strap' collects heart rate and heart rate variability data.

Other data gathered will be in the form of surveys and comments from subjects on wellness, burnout, modifiable activities including sleep, nutrition, exercise and mindfulness, and surgical performance as well as video and audio recordings during a simulated surgical task.

Surveys will be individually numbered and a master list of subject number and video, audio, and sensor ID will be kept in a separate location. This practice will enable us to better understand survey feedback by reviewing relevant videos, images, and sensor recordings. Images and data associated with a subject will be labeled with the subject number only.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 66
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Study participants will include trainee and attending surgeons

Exclusion Criteria:

• Exclusion criteria will be anyone who is not full-time clinically active as a surgical trainee or attending

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Burnout, Professional

Intervention

Device:
• Whoop
Wear WHOOP Strap, complete surveys

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Stanford Health Care	Stanford	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Stanford University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Surgeon Recovery	A daily Recovery score from 0-100% (0-33% is poor recovery, 34-66% is medium recovery, 67-100% is good recovery) is calculated using the WHOOP algorithm which takes resting heart rate, heart rate variability, and sleep metrics into account.	6-12 months
Secondary	Clinical Strain	Strain scores are calculated using the WHOOP algorithm which uses heart rate, activity, and duration of activity. The Clinical Strain will refer to the Strain calculated by the WHOOP strap that occurs during clinical activities including overnight call and operative cases.	6-12 months