The purpose of this study is to learn more about what patients undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer expect from their surgery. Your input may help us to better prepare and inform patients about their disease and its treatment.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
138
The pre-operative interview will be within 4 weeks of planned surgery and the postoperative interview within 8 weeks of surgery completion. This initial study is designed to develop an instrument to measure patient preoperative expectations in this patient population.
Individual semi-structured qualitative interviews will be conducted with a total of 10 patients and 5 clinicians during this phase to identify and discuss levels of satisfaction, level of burden, potential obstacles to implementation, as well as suggestions for improving the intervention
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
To establish a patient-reported outcomes tool for measuring preoperative expectations in patients undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer.
This will be done by conducting qualitative semistructured interviews with 15 thyroid cancer patients (pre- and postoperatively) to identify recurring themes about their expectations regarding thyroid surgery.
Time frame: 2 year
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