How do Patients, Nurses and Physicians Perceive Negative Postoperative Events?
Completed
- Conditions
- Healthy
- Interventions
- Other: Questionnaire
- Registration Number
- NCT00785096
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Zurich
- Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to assess how patients, nurses and physicians perceive negative events following surgical procedures.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 615
Inclusion Criteria
- Age: ≥ 18 years
- Capacity to act and no legal guardian
- Patients with any underlying disease admitted to the Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery of the University Hospital of Zurich with planned minor or major visceral surgery
- German language as daily language.
Exclusion Criteria
- Patients with cognitive difficulties and diseases, which may yield unreliable answers
- Patients unable to read and write
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Physicians Questionnaire Medical staff of the University Hospital of Zurich and other institutions Patients Questionnaire Patients who admit for a minor or major surgical intervention Nurses Questionnaire Medical staff of the University Hospital of Zurich
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To assess how patients, nurses and physicians perceive negative events following surgical procedures August 2008- December 2009
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Association to the Clavien Dindo Classification August 2008 - December 2009
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery of the University Hospital of Zurich
🇨🇭Zurich, Switzerland