What this means
This study will ask older patients to fill out a questionnaire about how they feel before and after surgery. It will not show results yet, because the study is still recruiting people.
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- Status
- Recruiting
- Who can join
- Ages 80 and over
- Where
- 4 sites
The science
- Registered title
- Postoperative Recovery in Elderly Patients Assessed With QoR-15E
- Trial ID
- NCT07505758 ↗
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Study type
- observational
- Conditions
- Postoperative Recovery in Elderly Patients, Quality of Recovery After Elective Surgery, Perioperative Care Outcomes in Older Adults
- What is tested
- QoR-15E questionnaire., Clinical Frailty Scale, Confusional Assessment Method, Post-Operative Morbidity Survey
- Sponsor
- Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Research Institute
- Ages
- 80 Years to no maximum
- Dates
- First posted Apr 1, 2026 · updated Apr 1, 2026
Registry summary
Postoperative recovery in elderly patients is an important part of the surgical process and affects how patients feel after surgery. To date, recovery has been measured mostly with clinical outcomes, such as complications or length of stay, but not from the patient's perspective. The QoR-15 questionnaire was designed to assess recovery from the patient's point of view and has recently been validated in Spanish as the QoR-15E.
This study aims to evaluate postoperative recovery in patients aged 80 years and older undergoing elective surgery with hospital admission, using the QoR-15E questionnaire. Patients will complete the questionnaire before surgery and on postoperative days 1, 2, 7, and 30. Additional assessments will include frailty and delirium scales, and postoperative complications will be recorded. Mortality will be evaluated 90 days after surgery, alongside the patient's subjective perception of their recovery.
Sites (4)
- Hospital del Mar de Barcelona, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain