The purpose of this pilot study is to find out if patients are willing to self-report symptoms in the first 5 days following discharge, or when they leave the hospital after "ambulatory surgery" ("ambulatory surgery" is when the patient has surgery and then goes home within 24 hours).
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
135
All patients will submit a baseline survey following enrollment onto study. After successful completion of the AXR or 24-hour discharge pathway, the consented patient will be contacted by email or telephone for 5 days following discharge from surgery.
Memoral Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth
Middletown, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester
Harrison, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
number of patients who respond to the survery
A patient will be deemed a "responder" if they complete at least 5 of the 8 symptom items on at least 3 days postoperatively. The symptom assessment method will be deemed successful if 32 of the 50 patients respond.
Time frame: up to 5 days after surgery
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Rockville Centre
Rockville Centre, New York, United States