Are Doctors and Assistant Nurses Equally Good at Informing Patients
NCT ID: NCT03893968
Last Updated: 2019-03-28
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
72 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2018-02-01
2018-06-30
Brief Summary
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Methods: a non-blinded randomized single-center controlled trial being conducted at a hand-surgical unit in Northern Sweden. Included are adult ambulatory patients about to undergo surgery in local anesthesia. Patients are randomized into two parallel groups, with the control-group being informed by doctors and the intervention-group by assistant nurses. Patients will be telephoned one week after surgery for assessment of information recall via a structured telephone-interview.
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Detailed Description
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As the healthcare in Sweden is funded by taxpayers, the healthcare for patients is free, apart from a small nominal fee. There was a total of seven doctors and seven assistant nurses participating in the study, all having several years of experience working with hand-surgical care. Prior to the study, doctors had the formal responsibility of informing patients about their postoperative care. However, despite it being the surgeons' responsibility, the task of informing patients was at times performed by assistant nurses. After receiving the information, patients were discharged and left the clinic. Normally patients receive a complementary written information after being informed verbally. Patients included in the study did not receive the written information, since it might have been a confounding factor in understanding of information.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
SINGLE
Study Groups
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Informed by a doctor
Information by a doctor
Information by a doctor
Information received by patients after ambulatory hand surgery under local anaesthetic about postoperative self care given by a doctor.
Informed by an assistant nurse
Information by an assistant nurse
Information by an assistant nurse
Information received by patients after ambulatory hand surgery under local anaesthetic about postoperative self care given by an assistent nurse.
Interventions
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Information by an assistant nurse
Information received by patients after ambulatory hand surgery under local anaesthetic about postoperative self care given by an assistent nurse.
Information by a doctor
Information received by patients after ambulatory hand surgery under local anaesthetic about postoperative self care given by a doctor.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* 18 years or older.
Exclusion Criteria
* dementia or other form av cognitive impairment
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Umeå University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Aleksandra McGrath
Senior Consultant
Principal Investigators
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Martin Fahlström
Role: STUDY_CHAIR
Umea University
Locations
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Norrland's University Hospital
Umeå, Sverige, Sweden
Countries
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Other Identifiers
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2017/446-31
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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