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CompletedNCT06019572Updated Aug 31, 2023

Spine Trauma in the Elderly

An observational study in Spine Injury, Trauma and Surgery, sponsored by Karolinska Institutet. Completed at 1 site in Sweden. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-08-31.

Sponsored by Karolinska Institutet · Observational

Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Retrospective
Enrollment
108
Sex
All
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Study summary

Our study aims at investigating short and long-term outcomes following surgery for subaxial spine injuries in the elderly (octogenarian) population.

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Conditions studied

  • Spine Injury
  • Trauma
  • Surgery
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In context

Spinal Injuries

57 studies on the registry are indexed under Spinal Injuries; 15 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 108 is above the median of 92 across 22 observational studies indexed under Spinal Injuries.

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Lead sponsor

Karolinska Institutet is the lead sponsor of 1,148 studies on the registry; 276 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Child (0–17), Adult (18–64), Older adult (65+)
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

The study hospital is a publicly funded tertiary care center serving a region of approximately 2.3 million inhabitants and the region's only level 1 trauma center. Patients were identified through the surgical management software Orbit (Evry Healthcare Systems, Solna, Sweden).

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Inclusion criteria

  • All patients surgically treated for subaxial spine injuries between 2006 and 2018

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Missing records
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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Retrospective
Enrollment
108 participants (actual)
Patient registry
No

Groups and cohorts

  • Younger cohort (<80 years)

    Procedure: Spine decompression and fixation surgery

  • octogenarians (≥80 years)

    Procedure: Spine decompression and fixation surgery

Interventions

  • ProcedureSpine decompression and fixation surgery

    Surgery is performed by either an anterior or posterior approach. Anterior approach is performed with either discectomy or corpectomy accompanied fusion, while the posterior approach consist in a bilateral laminectomy accompanied by fusion.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Postoperative complications

    medical or surgical complications

    Time frame: 30-day postoperative period

  2. Mortality

    death

    Time frame: End of the study period (or end of data collection)

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Study locations

1 site
  • Karolinska University Hospital
    Stockholm, Sweden
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Apr 2023 to primary completion in Jun 2023, 2 months.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Aug 25, 2023
First posted
Aug 31, 2023
StartActual
Apr 1, 2023
Primary completionActual
Jun 1, 2023
CompletionActual
Jun 15, 2023
Last update
Aug 31, 2023
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 31, 2023, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT06019572
Lead sponsor
Karolinska Institutet
Responsible party
Adrian Elmi Terander (Associate Professor, Karolinska Institutet) — Principal investigator
First posted
Aug 31, 2023
Start date
Apr 1, 2023
Primary completion
Jun 1, 2023
Completion
Jun 15, 2023
Last update
Aug 31, 2023

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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