Assessing Change in Patient-reported Quality of Life After Elective Surgery: an Observational Comparison Study
Completed
Conditions studied: Quality of Life, Surgical Procedure, Unspecified
In brief
This study will compare two commonly-used methods for assessing patient-reported quality of life. The first is to assess quality of life before surgery and again after surgery using the same validated scale (ie Veterans Rand 12). The second is simply to ask patients whether or not they think their post-operative quality of life is better, worse, or the same. The investigators hypothesize that the second method may be inaccurate due to cognitive bias.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02771964
- Run by
- Washington University School of Medicine
- People needed
- 17850
- Starts
- 2014-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2016-07-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-02-12
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
Where it is running
- Department of Anesthesiology — St Louis, Missouri, United States
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