Improving the Outcomes of Older Adults with Psychosocial Vulnerability Undergoing Major Surgery.

Description

Ellis Dillon, Ph.D., sub-PI, will oversee the qualitative research--recruit patients and conduct interviews, lead development of the analysis plan, lead final analysis to determine major findings and analysis by subgroup, e.g., age, race, gender, pre- and post-surgery.

PI is Victoria Tang, M.D., University of California, San Francisco.

Principal Investigator

Ellis C. Dillon, Ph.D., External PI, Principal Investigator

Funder

NIH to University of California, San Francisco.

Start Date

July 15, 2020

End Date

May 31, 2021

Research Topics

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