Effect of Geriatric Comanagement in Older Patients Undergoing Surgery for Gastrointestinal Cancer: A Retrospective,Before-and-After Study |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (DIMI), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy;2. Ospedale Policlinico San Martino IRCCS, Genoa, Italy;3. Unit of Surgical Oncology, San Martino Hospital, Genoa, Italy;4. DISSAL, Department of Health Science, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy;5. Unit of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Biomedical Campus of Rome, Rome, Italy;1. Stony Brook University School of Nursing, Stony Brook, NY, USA;2. University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, USA;3. University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD, USA;1. Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;2. Schools of Social Work and Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;3. Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;4. University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA |
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ObjectiveTo determine the effect of geriatric comanagement on clinical outcomes of older patients undergoing surgery for gastrointestinal cancer.DesignThis was a single-center, nonrandomized, before-and-after study, which compared patient outcomes before and after the implementation of geriatric comanagement in an oncological surgery division.Setting and ParticipantsThe study included patients aged 70 or older, who were treated for a gastrointestinal cancer at the Oncological Surgery Division of the Policlinico San Martino Hospital (Genoa, Italy). Patients from the control group were treated between January 2015 and October 2018, and the patients who received geriatric comanagement during their stay in the surgical ward were treated between November 2018 and December 2019.MethodsPatients from both groups received a preoperative comprehensive geriatric assessment in the preoperative phase and were followed according to the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery model in the perioperative period. In the geriatric comanagement group, targeted interventions during daily geriatrician-led ward rounds were performed. Inverse probability weighting was used to adjust estimates for potential baseline confounders.ResultsA total of 207 patients were included: 107 in the control group and 90 who received geriatric comanagement. Overall, patients from both groups had similar demographic and clinical characteristics with a median [interquartile range (IQR)] age of 80.0 (77.0, 84.0) years and a pre-frail phenotype [median (IQR) 40-item Frailty Index 0.15 (0.10, 0.26)]. In the geriatric comanagement group, a significant reduction in grade I–V complications (adjusted odds ratio 0.29; 95% CI 0.21–0.40); P < .001) and in 1-year readmissions (adjusted hazard ratio 0.53; 95% CI 0.28–0.98; P < .044) was observed. No difference between the 2 groups in terms of 1-year mortality was detected.Conclusions and ImplicationsOur study supports the implementation of geriatric comanagement in the care of older patients undergoing surgery for gastrointestinal cancer. |
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| Keywords: | Older adults cancer surgery geriatric assessment frailty aging perioperative medicine |
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