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Assessing Change in Patient-reported Quality of Life After Elective Surgery: an Observational Comparison Study

NCT02771964 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 17850

Last updated 2019-02-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study will compare two commonly-used methods for assessing patient-reported quality of life. The first is to assess quality of life before surgery and again after surgery using the same validated scale (ie Veterans Rand 12). The second is simply to ask patients whether or not they think their post-operative quality of life is better, worse, or the same. The investigators hypothesize that the second method may be inaccurate due to cognitive bias.

Conditions

  • Quality of Life
  • Surgical Procedure, Unspecified

Interventions

OTHER

Quality of life survey

All enrolled patients complete a survey of baseline health during their visit to the preoperative assessment clinic and then complete a follow-up survey approximately 30 days after surgery. The intervention for this study is to compare self-reported quality of life ("How would you rate your quality of life now? (better/same/worse)") to the quantitative change in their VR-12 quality of life scores between the baseline survey and 30-day follow-up survey.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Washington University School of Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michael S Avidan, MBBCh · Washington University School of Medicine

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-10-31
Completion
2016-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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