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NCT number NCT06022666
Other study ID # PATHTrial
Secondary ID
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date September 2023
Est. completion date March 2026

Study information

Verified date August 2023
Source Nova Scotia Health Authority
Contact Richard Spence, MD, FRCSC
Phone 1 647 612 5904
Email Richard.Spence@dal.ca
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a single center, non-blinded randomized control trial taking place at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital (QEII) in Nova Scotia. Patients are eligible if aged 75 and older scheduled for elective cancer surgery and screened as severely frail or cognitively impaired. Participants will then be randomized to preoperative standard of care or geriatric assessment through the PATH clinic. Primary outcome will assess time spend at home at 6 months after the surgery.


Description:

At Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), geriatric medicine colleagues developed a preoperative palliative and therapeutic harmonization (PATH) clinic with the following objectives: 1. Assess medical conditions, health trajectory, and baseline frailty. 2. Conduct an in-depth discussion with the patient (or their substitute decision maker) to review medical conditions and how frailty stage impacts decision-making about surgery. 3. Co-develop a care plan, including ways to optimize health. The investigators have elaborated a single center randomized cohort trial for patients aged 75 and older, screened as severely frail or cognitively impaired scheduled for curative or palliative-intent surgery for bronchopulmonary, oropharyngeal, orthopaedic, gynaecological, breast or gastrointestinal cancers. Patients enrolled in the trial will be randomized to standard of care preoperative assessment versus PATH geriatric care arm.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Not yet recruiting
Enrollment 150
Est. completion date March 2026
Est. primary completion date March 2026
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 75 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patients must have a pathologically confirmed diagnosis of bronchopulmonary, oropharyngeal, orthopaedic, gynaecological, breast or gastrointestinal cancer surgery. 2. Patients must be scheduled and consented for curative or palliative intent surgery. 3. Patients must be aged 75 or older. 4. Patients must be screened by the CFS to have: 4a. Mild or greater frailty (CFS equal or greater than 5) due to cognitive impairment. 4b. Moderate or greater frailty (CFS equal or greater than 6) due to medical/physical conditions. 5. Informed consent for participation must be received. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients cannot be a resident in a long-term care facility prior to the cancer diagnosis. 2. Urgent/ emergent cases are excluded.

Study Design


Intervention

Other:
Geriatric assessment
Geriatric assessment through PATH clinic which includes an evaluation of comorbidities, health trajectory and baseline frailty as well as conducting an in-depth discussion with the patient on how frailty stage impacts decision-making about surgery in order to co-develop a care plan.

Locations

Country Name City State
Canada QEII, Victoria General Hospital Halifax Nova Scotia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Nova Scotia Health Authority

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

References & Publications (11)

Chesney TR, Coburn N, Mahar AL, Davis LE, Zuk V, Zhao H, Hsu AT, Wright F, Haas B, Hallet J; Recovery After Surgical Therapy for Older Adults Research-Cancer (RESTORE-Cancer) Group. All-Cause and Cancer-Specific Death of Older Adults Following Surgery for Cancer. JAMA Surg. 2021 Jul 1;156(7):e211425. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2021.1425. Epub 2021 Jul 14. — View Citation

Chesney TR, Haas B, Coburn N, Mahar AL, Davis LE, Zuk V, Zhao H, Wright F, Hsu AT, Hallet J. Association of frailty with long-term homecare utilization in older adults following cancer surgery: Retrospective population-based cohort study. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2021 Apr;47(4):888-895. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2020.09.009. Epub 2020 Sep 16. — View Citation

Chesney TR, Haas B, Coburn NG, Mahar AL, Zuk V, Zhao H, Wright FC, Hsu AT, Hallet J; Recovery After Surgical Therapy for Older Adults Research-Cancer (RESTORE-Cancer) Group. Patient-Centered Time-at-Home Outcomes in Older Adults After Surgical Cancer Treatment. JAMA Surg. 2020 Nov 1;155(11):e203754. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2020.3754. Epub 2020 Nov 18. — View Citation

Finlayson EV, Birkmeyer JD. Operative mortality with elective surgery in older adults. Eff Clin Pract. 2001 Jul-Aug;4(4):172-7. Erratum In: Eff Clin Pract 2001 Sep-Oct;4(5):235. — View Citation

Hall DE, Arya S, Schmid KK, Carlson MA, Lavedan P, Bailey TL, Purviance G, Bockman T, Lynch TG, Johanning JM. Association of a Frailty Screening Initiative With Postoperative Survival at 30, 180, and 365 Days. JAMA Surg. 2017 Mar 1;152(3):233-240. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2016.4219. — View Citation

McIsaac DI, Taljaard M, Bryson GL, Beaule PE, Gagne S, Hamilton G, Hladkowicz E, Huang A, Joanisse JA, Lavallee LT, MacDonald D, Moloo H, Thavorn K, van Walraven C, Yang H, Forster AJ. Frailty as a Predictor of Death or New Disability After Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Study. Ann Surg. 2020 Feb;271(2):283-289. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002967. — View Citation

Moorhouse P, Mallery LH. Palliative and therapeutic harmonization: a model for appropriate decision-making in frail older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2012 Dec;60(12):2326-32. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2012.04210.x. Epub 2012 Oct 30. — View Citation

Spence RT, Hirpara DH, Doshi S, Quereshy FA, Chadi SA. ASO Author Reflections: A Reductionist's Approach to Risk-Adjusted Predictions and Outcomes Assessment: Less is More. Ann Surg Oncol. 2021 May;28(5):2788-2789. doi: 10.1245/s10434-020-09284-x. Epub 2020 Nov 5. No abstract available. — View Citation

Spence RT, Hirpara DH, Doshi S, Quereshy FA, Chadi SA. Will My Patient Survive an Anastomotic Leak? Predicting Failure to Rescue Using the Modified Frailty Index. Ann Surg Oncol. 2021 May;28(5):2779-2787. doi: 10.1245/s10434-020-09221-y. Epub 2020 Oct 23. — View Citation

Theou O, Perez-Zepeda MU, van der Valk AM, Searle SD, Howlett SE, Rockwood K. A classification tree to assist with routine scoring of the Clinical Frailty Scale. Age Ageing. 2021 Jun 28;50(4):1406-1411. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afab006. — View Citation

Zhang XM, Jiao J, Xie XH, Wu XJ. The Association Between Frailty and Delirium Among Hospitalized Patients: An Updated Meta-Analysis. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2021 Mar;22(3):527-534. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2021.01.065. Epub 2021 Feb 5. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Time spent at home 6 months following cancer surgery. Number of days spent at home vs in a hospital or care-facility unit dichotomized as low vs high time at home. High time at home defined as 14 or fewer institution days, and low time defined as more than 14 institution days at 6 months. At 6 months postoperatively
Primary Preoperative factors associated with decreased proportion of time spent at home at 6 months. At 6 months postoperatively
Secondary Number of participants requiring home care utilization Receipt of any homeware service (nursing, wound care, social workers, physiotherapy) from the day of postoperative discharge from the hospital. Assessed from date of hospital discharge (from index surgery) to 6 months postoperatively.
Secondary Number of participants experiencing death or development of persistent significant new disability. Participant passing away or developing a new disability, from the day of index surgery. Assessed using the WHODAS 2.0 disability scale. Assessed from date of index surgery to 6 months postoperatively.
Secondary Preoperative factors associated with increased home care utilization, death, or new onset disability. Assessed up to 6 months postoperatively.
Secondary Rate of change to a non-operative strategy Rate of patients randomized to PATH clinic arm that end up declining surgery after consultation. Assessed from date of randomization until documented confirmation that patient has opted for non surgical approach, assessed up to 6 months.
Secondary Decision regret scores. Decisional Regret Scale ranging from 0-100 scores measure the distress or remorse regarding the patient's decision made about undergoing surgery. Assessed from date of hospital discharge (from index surgery) to 6 months postoperatively.
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