NCT01045200CompletedNot Applicable
Nurse-or Surgeon-led Follow-up After Rectal Cancer: a Randomised Trial.
Centrallasarettet Västerås1 site in 1 country110 target enrollmentStarted: January 2002Last updated:
Conditions
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 110
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Patient satisfaction
Study Overview
Brief Summary
Follow-up programmes consume a large amount of resources with less time for the surgeon to take on new patients. The aim of this randomised study was to compare patient satisfaction, resource utilisation, and medical safety in patients curatively operated for rectal cancer that were followed-up by a surgeon or a nurse.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Observational Model
- Cohort
- Time Perspective
- Prospective
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 19 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Patients curatively operated for rectal cancer.
- •Patients had to be more than 18 years of age and written and oral informed consent was obtained.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Those with psychiatric disorders, dementia and whose general condition had deteriorated with an expected survival of less than six months were not eligible.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Patient satisfaction
Time Frame: At each patient visit, i.e. every 6 months during the first three years than every year after rectal cancer surgery.
Secondary Outcomes
- Resource utilisation(at each patient visit, i.e. every 6 months during the first three years than every year after rectal cancer surgery.)
Investigators
Study Sites (1)
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