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Patient Preferences and Experiences of Waiting for Heart Surgery

NCT05996640 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 268

Last updated 2023-08-18

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Summary

Waiting for heart surgery could be difficult and anxiety-provoking for some patients. Research suggests that some specific factors (e.g., individual coping strategies, communication with the clinical team, having a more active role in care decision-making) could reduce the stress associated with waiting. However, most of this research has looked at patients waiting for other types of surgery (e.g., cancer surgery). Therefore, more research focusing on patients waiting for heart surgery is needed.

This project aims to investigate patients' experiences, perceptions and preferences about waiting for elective (non-emergency) heart surgery across four London-based National Health Service (NHS) hospitals that belong to King's Health Partners (KHP): Royal Brompton, Harefield, St Thomas', and King's College hospitals. The project is led by the research team at King's Improvement Science, (King's College London), in collaboration with clinicians and patients with lived experience of waiting for heart surgery.

This project will look at:

* how patients feel their heart condition affects their day-to-day life;
* how patients experience being on a waiting list;
* what factors patients consider as most important for their upcoming surgery (e.g. to have their surgery as soon as possible, at their nearest hospital, or carried out by a specific surgeon);
* patients' opinions about how the heart surgery waiting list process could be improved.

Adult patients (\>18 years old) waiting for elective heart surgery at the four hospitals listed above will be invited, via a text message and a letter, to complete an online survey (i.e. a list of questions). Completing reading study information and completing the survey will likely take approximately 30 minutes. The survey will be open for 8 weeks in total.

Findings from this project, together with other work looking at clinical processes and outcomes across heart surgery services at the four KHP hospitals, will inform a wider quality improvement project.

Conditions

  • Cardiac Disease

Interventions

OTHER

This is study does not use an intervention

This is study does not use an intervention. A survey will be used to collected data on patients' experiences and preferences about waiting list for heart surgery.

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Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
99 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-08-14
Primary Completion
2023-11-15
Completion
2023-11-15

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