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The VICTORY Trial: Virtual, Innovative, Postsurgical Care To Optimize Return Home for Older People With frailtY

Surgery | Frailty

Canadian hospitals continue to struggle with severe emergency department and hospital bed capacity shortages. Maximizing bed availability and minimizing emergency department and urgent-centre visits by providing patients with alternative options to care is an important part of the solution. Surgical patients with frailty are at high risk of requiring subsequent acute-hospital care. The VICTORY trial will answer an important question that will inform how to improve care for surgical patients with frailty by determining the effect of virtual care with CloudDX technology compared to standard care to see if it can result in an increase in the number of days alive and at home that older people with frailty experience after planned surgery.

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Participation Requirements

  • Sex:

    ALL

  • Eligible Ages:

    60 and up

Participation Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age \> 60years
2. Diagnosis of frailty (Clinical Frailty Score \>4)
3. Elective surgery
4. Fluent in English

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Preoperative institutional residence
2. Planned postoperative non-home discharge (i.e. rehabilitation or convalescence)
3. Patient unable to interact with virtual care and/or technology
4. Cognitive impairment preventing ability to provide independent informed consent to surgery and the trial
5. Patient lives in an area without cellular or internet service

Study Location

The Ottawa Hospital
The Ottawa Hospital
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada

Contact Study Team

Primary Contact

Emily Hladkowicz, PhD

[email protected]
613-798-5555
Study Sponsored By
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Participants Required
More Information
Study ID: NCT06503198