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.

Research Topics

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