Description
Adults aged 50 and older who have a planned abdominal, urologic, or other major surgery sought for a study on whether completing a walking exercise program before surgery improves surgical outcomes.
Overview
Volunteers for this study will complete a survey and two small tasks to help us better identify and select volunteers who might be more likely to have complications following surgery. These volunteers will then be assigned to walk daily until their surgery. We will then compare surgery outcomes to see if walking reduces the risk of complications following surgery.
What we're hoping for
We hope to better identify patients who are more likely to have complications following surgery and we hope that instructions on walking daily for the period before your surgery will reduce the risk of complications following surgery.
Additional Information
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03892187