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Function and Quality of Life After Emergency vs Planned Creation of a Stoma

Not yet recruiting
Conditions
Colorectal Cancer
Interventions
Procedure: emergency procedure
Registration Number
NCT05102981
Lead Sponsor
Eva Haglind, MD, PhD, professor
Brief Summary

The aim is to compare functional outcome and or quality of life in patients with a stoma that was constructed as an emergency procedure with patients where a stoma was created as a planned procedure. To do this data will be retrieved from the Swedish Patient Register to identify all patients with a diagnosis of colorectal cancer and a stoma construction procedure during two previous calender years. To collect data on stoma function and quality of life a specific questionnaire will be sent to the cohort approximately within 2 years of the procedure.

Detailed Description

The cohort will be identified through the National in-Patient Register, held by the Swedish Board of Health and Welfare, by using a combination of ICD10 and NOMESCO codes. Two calender years will be the collecytion period to reach group size allowing for statistical analysis. Data from the register will be used to describe the groups (demography) and data from the prescribed drug register to calculate costs for stoma appliances after discharge.

Using the patient ID, all patients still alive at the time, will be contacted first by a letter followed within 2-4 days by a phomecall from the study secretariate, to ask for consent and thereafter to send out the questionnaire.

The questionnaire includes validated questions used before as well as validated instruments, to analyze stoma function in detail as well as quality fo life, as well as questions where answers will be used for adjustment in analyses.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
700
Inclusion Criteria
  • stoma permanently or for shorter period
Exclusion Criteria
  • not understanding Swedish

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
emergency stomaemergency procedurean emergency procedure including stoma construction, as first procedure at or shortly after diagnosis of colon or rectal cancer
Planned stomaemergency procedurea planned procedure including stoma construction, as first procedure after diagnosis of colon or rectal cancer
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
function of stoma<3 years of stoma creation

rate of patients experiencing leakage from stoma appliance

Function of stoma< 3 years of creation

rate of patients who are satisfied with stoma function

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
quality of life< 3 years of stoma creation

"How was your quality of life last month?" answered through Likert scale anchored by "worst possible" and b"best possible" respectively

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