How do Patients, Nurses and Physicians Perceive Negative Postoperative Events?

University of Zurich615 enrolled

Overview

The purpose of this study is to assess how patients, nurses and physicians perceive negative events following surgical procedures.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

615

Conditions

Healthy

Interventions

QuestionnaireOTHER

Questionnaire, complications, grading severity, visual analog scale

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (1)

Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery of the University Hospital of Zurich

Zurich, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

To assess how patients, nurses and physicians perceive negative events following surgical procedures

Time frame: August 2008- December 2009

Secondary Outcomes

Association to the Clavien Dindo Classification

Time frame: August 2008 - December 2009

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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