Hand Grip Strength as a Marker of Frailty in Surgical Patients

Yale University52 enrolled

Overview

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

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.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Frailty

Interventions

Obtain grip strength from a standardized gripometerDEVICE

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

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 60 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (1)

Yale School of Medicine

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

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.

Time frame: 10 minutes at the time of admission

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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