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Are Doctors and Assistant Nurses Equally Good at Informing Patients

NCT03893968 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 72

Last updated 2019-03-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Objectives: to compare patients' recall of information regarding postoperative self-care when being informed by either doctors or assistant nurses.

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.

Conditions

  • Patient Care

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

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.

BEHAVIORAL

Information by a doctor

Information received by patients after ambulatory hand surgery under local anaesthetic about postoperative self care given by a doctor.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Umeå University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Martin Fahlström · Umea University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-02-01
Primary Completion
2018-06-30
Completion
2018-06-30

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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