Role of Pre-operative Counseling in the Surgical Patient
Stopped early · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Patient Education
In brief
The study will seek to determine if surgical patients do better or the same if participants undergo pre-operative counseling for elective laparoscopic same day surgery. The study hypothesizes that patients who receive a pre-operative education booklet and a phone call from a surgical registered nurse, compared to the current standard of care, will have higher satisfaction with regard to participants' surgical experience, decrease in the number of post-operative phone calls, decrease in the number of opioid medications, and decrease in the number of emergency department visits. The importance of this study is to understand what surgical clinical practices can do in the pre-operative setting to enhance a surgical patient's recovery.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03925961
- Run by
- Johns Hopkins University
- People needed
- 6
- Starts
- 2019-08-06
- Expected to finish
- 2020-09-25
- Last updated by the study team
- 2021-10-20
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- General surgical patients who will undergo same-day laparoscopic ventral hernia, inguinal hernia, and gallbladder surgery at Howard County General Hospital with the general surgery practice at Johns Hopkins Community Physicians.
You may not qualify if…
- Patients less than 18 years of age
- Adults who lack the capacity to consent
- Pregnant women
- Prisoners
- Non-English speakers.
Where it is running
- Johns Hopkins University — Columbia, Maryland, United States
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