Patient Satisfaction With Postoperative Follow up After Minimally Invasive Hysterectomy
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Minimally Invasive Surgery, Hysterectomy, Postoperative, Satisfaction
In brief
This prospective, randomized control trial will evaluate patient satisfaction with the number of postoperative follow up visits after minimally invasive hysterectomy for the treatment of non-cancerous conditions at an urban academic hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. Patients will be randomized to receive either a two and six week postoperative follow up visits versus a postoperative follow up visit at six weeks alone.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03642743
- Run by
- University of Louisville
- People needed
- 174
- Starts
- 2018-08-08
- Expected to finish
- 2020-03-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2021-04-26
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 70. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patients of University of Louisville gynecology providers age 18-70 who are planning to undergo a minimally invasive hysterectomy for benign indications.
- Incident surgery must be performed at the University of Louisville Hospital (or affiliated hospital attended by a provider affiliated with the academic department).
You may not qualify if…
- Patients with decreased mental capacity who are unable to consent.
- Patients who do not have sufficient English proficiency to complete or understand informed consent for the surgery or study questionnaires.
- Patients with unreliable access to a telephone.
- Patients with significant medical comorbidities that would necessitate more frequent follow up.
- Patients for whom the planned number of follow ups have been pre-determined at the pre-operative visit due to a certain medical need or condition.
- Patients who report an inability to comply with postoperative follow up in either group to which they could be randomized.
- Women who decide at their preoperative visit they do not desire or cannot undergo benign gynecologic surgery as scheduled.
- Women who have medical contraindication to undergoing the benign gynecologic surgery that was planned prior, as determined in their best interest by their provider
Where it is running
- Health Care Outpatient Center and University of Louisville — Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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