Fit-4-Surgery Cohort Database
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
336488
Contact name
Frances Wensley
Contact email
Research summary
Fit-4-Surgery Cohort Research Database: Renewal and expansion of Inception Cohort Research Database
REC name
East of England - Essex Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
24/EE/0053
Date of REC Opinion
21 May 2024
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
We propose to expand our single centre (University Hospital Southampton - UHS) prospectively maintained database/ data bio-resource, with the aim of consolidating and centralising routinely collected clinically available data. This database is a prospectively maintained bio-resource utilised for data analyses and interrogation of clinically available data in various patient cohorts with the primary aim to inform and enhance perioperative patient care at UHS. This work is an expansion of a previous project (the Inception Cohort Database) to link data collected routinely by the Perioperative Medicine Hub around the time of surgery.
Research programme
This work supports patients having major surgery. By better understanding how patients prepare for surgery, what changes can be made to improve fitness (mental, physical, nutritional, motivational, etc) prior to surgery and how these affect outcomes following surgery. Outcomes may include time in hospital after surgery, complications after surgery, time to recovery, long-term quality of life and mortality. It will also look at decision-making around surgery and how patients are supported in their decisions about surgery and other related treatments.
Research database title
Fit-4-Surgery Cohort Research Database: Renewal and expansion of Inception Cohort Research Database
Establishment organisation
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Establishment organisation address
Perioperative Medicine
Shackleton Department of Anaesthetics
Tremona Road
SO16 6YD