How do Patients, Nurses and Physicians Perceive Negative Postoperative Events?
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00785096 |
Recruitment Status
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Completed
First Posted
: November 5, 2008
Last Update Posted
: February 10, 2015
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment |
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Healthy | Other: Questionnaire |
Study Type : | Observational |
Actual Enrollment : | 615 participants |
Observational Model: | Cohort |
Time Perspective: | Prospective |
Official Title: | Perception of Surgical Complications - Agreements Among Patients, Nurses and Physicians |
Study Start Date : | January 2009 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | December 2009 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | December 2009 |
Group/Cohort | Intervention/treatment |
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Patients
Patients who admit for a minor or major surgical intervention
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Other: Questionnaire
Questionnaire, complications, grading severity, visual analog scale
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Nurses
Medical staff of the University Hospital of Zurich
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Other: Questionnaire
Questionnaire, complications, grading severity, visual analog scale
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Physicians
Medical staff of the University Hospital of Zurich and other institutions
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Other: Questionnaire
Questionnaire, complications, grading severity, visual analog scale
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- To assess how patients, nurses and physicians perceive negative events following surgical procedures [ Time Frame: August 2008- December 2009 ]
- Association to the Clavien Dindo Classification [ Time Frame: August 2008 - December 2009 ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Sampling Method: | Probability Sample |
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

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00785096
Switzerland | |
Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery of the University Hospital of Zurich | |
Zurich, Switzerland, 8091 |
Responsible Party: | Ksenija Slankamenac, MD PhD, University of Zurich |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00785096 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
30-2008 |
First Posted: | November 5, 2008 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | February 10, 2015 |
Last Verified: | February 2015 |
Keywords provided by Ksenija Slankamenac, University of Zurich:
Perception, surgical complications, patients, nurses and physicians |