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title: "Walk With a Doc: Enhanced Recovery Walking Program for Surgical Inpatients and Wellness Program for Surgical Residents"
nct_id: NCT05211531
overall_status: TERMINATED
sponsor: Richard Perugini
study_type: OBSERVATIONAL
primary_condition: Complication of Surgical Procedure
countries: United States
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clinicaltrials_gov: "https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05211531"
ct_last_update_post_date: 2024-09-25
last_seen_at: "2026-05-12T06:24:37.185Z"
source: ClinicalTrials.gov (mirrored, no enrichment)
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# Walk With a Doc: Enhanced Recovery Walking Program for Surgical Inpatients and Wellness Program for Surgical Residents

**NCT ID:** [NCT05211531](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05211531)

## Key Facts

- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Why Stopped:** Lead study team member deceased, project not continued.
- **Study Type:** OBSERVATIONAL
- **Target Enrollment:** 50
- **Lead Sponsor:** Richard Perugini
- **Collaborators:** University of Massachusetts, Worcester
- **Conditions:** Complication of Surgical Procedure, Resident Physicians
- **Start Date:** 2021-08-01
- **Completion Date:** 2022-06-25
- **CT.gov Last Update:** 2024-09-25

## Brief Summary

Program studying the number of steps post-operative patients need to take to prevent post-operative complications. Also studying surgical resident wellness program that provides extra time to ambulate with inpatients.

## Detailed Description

Program studying the number of steps post-operative patients need to take to prevent post-operative complications. Patients receive a pedometer while inpatient to measure their daily steps, which is recorded in the electronic medical record.

## Eligibility

- **Minimum age:** 18 Years
- **Sex:** ALL
- **Healthy Volunteers:** Yes

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Inclusion Criteria:

* Post-operative surgical patient with an over 24 hour post-operative stay in the hospital
* Safe to ambulate with/without assistance

Exclusion Criteria:

* Unable to ambulate
* Bedbound
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## Interventions

- **Measuring number of post-operative steps** (OTHER) — Measuring the number of post-operative steps that inpatients take.

## Primary Outcomes

- **Total number of steps** _(time frame: From index surgery to initial post-operative office visit, up to 3 weeks)_ — Total number of steps ambulated by the patient as measured by a pedometer
- **30 day Post-operative complications** _(time frame: 30 days)_ — 30 day Post-operative complications

## Locations (1)

- UMASS Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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