Evaluation of Office-Based Sheathed Flexible Nasopharyngoscopy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 撤回
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Patient pain and discomfort
研究概览
简要总结
The processing of standard flexible nasopharyngoscopes is a time-consuming and costly process. The goal of this study is to determine the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of sheathed flexible endoscope in an office setting.
详细描述
Methods: Randomized, single-blinded, controlled trial
Setting: Office practice of two academic otolaryngologists at a community hospital.
Primary Outcomes: Patient pain and discomfort, Optical quality
Secondary Outcomes: Physician and nursing staff satisfaction
Cost-analysis
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 17 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Adult patients presenting to the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery service with complaints warranting flexible endoscopy
排除标准
- •Known sinonasal masses or nasal polyposis
- •Unable to complete VAS surveys
- •Significant septal deviation
- •Unable to tolerate in-office flexible nasopharyngoscopy
- •Patients who refuse consent
结局指标
主要结局
Patient pain and discomfort
时间窗: 1 hour
Patient Pain and Discomfort i. Patient's reported level of pain based on International Association for the Study of Pain definitions of pain on a 100-mm Visual Analogue Scale ii. Patient's reported level of discomfort on a 100-mm Visual Analogue Scale
次要结局
- Physician and staff satisfaction(1 week)
- Optical quality(1 hour)