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NCT06023069: PREVENT
Preoperative Walking Evaluation and Postoperative Outcome
trial testing Number of steps recorded by mobile phone as a proxy for physical activity in General Surgery in 264 participants. Currently enrolling.
1 August 2026
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Karolinska Institutet |
|---|---|
| Status | Recruiting now |
| Study type | OBSERVATIONAL |
| Enrollment | 264 |
| Start date | 1 September 2023 |
| Primary completion | 1 August 2026 |
| Estimated completion | 31 December 2026 |
| Sites | 1 location across Sweden |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Number of steps recorded by mobile phone as a proxy for physical activity
Conditions studied
- General Surgery — all drugs for General Surgery →
- Perioperative Medicine — all drugs for Perioperative Medicine →
Sponsor
Karolinska Institutet
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with General Surgery or Perioperative Medicine. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
The hypothesis is that physical activity is associated with a reduced risk of complications and death after surgery. Self-reporting of physical activity is prone to be unreliable. In order to obtain a better picture of patients' physical activity, we intend to investigate the association between the average number of steps and postoperative outcomes. Many other objective measures of physical activity are costly and time-consuming to perform; for example, exercise tests, extensive sampling, and longer questionnaires. The primary research question is: Do patients with a higher degree of physical activity, measured as the average number of steps recorded on the patient's mobile phone, have a reduced risk of peri/postoperative complications and death, measured as Days At Home alive at 30 days (DAH30)? Secondary research questions include: Is physical activity, measured as the average number of steps recorded on the patient's mobile phone, linearly linked to DAH30? Is physical activity, measured as the average number of steps recorded on the patient's mobile phone, associated with specific peri/postoperative organ impact, such as lung, heart, cerebral, infection, or kidney complications? Is physical activity, measured as the average number of steps recorded on the patient's mobile phone, also linked to long-term outcomes one year after surgery? Is physical activity, measured as the average number of steps recorded on the patient's mobile phone, solely associated with DAH30 and organ complications for specific patient groups in terms of age, comorbidities, and/or type of surgery?
Publications & conference data
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Verify against primary sources
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06023069 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Karolinska Institutet
- Last refreshed: 3 September 2025
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