Patient education and postoperative pain.
Completed
- Conditions
- postoperative pain, patient education, pain assessment.postoperatieve pijn, patientenvoorlichting, pijnmeting.
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON20849
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Brief Summary
/A
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 350
Inclusion Criteria
All elective surgery patients of 18 years and older visiting the Outpatient Preanaesthesia Evaluation Clinic in UMC Utrecht.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients younger than 18 years;
2. Patients for ambulatory surgery;
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The main study endpoint is the patient's postoperative pain score on the NRS and the expressed need for (more) opioids by the patient. <br>Pain will be measured in each patient on the ward on the day after surgery by trained research nurses who are not involved in the postoperative care of that patient and are not aware of the study group in which the patient is included. The patient will be asked to score the enduring pain on an 11 point scale, where 0 indicates no pain and 10 indicates the worst imaginable pain. After the assessment of pain the patients will be asked if they want to have (more) morphine.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method