Patients With Hemorrhoids Referred to a Surgical Specialist Department

Hemorrhoids Clinical Trial

Official title:

Patients With Hemorrhoids Referred to a Surgical Specialist Department

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01706601
• Other study ID #: 2010/1108-31/1
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 11, 2012
• Last updated: March 9, 2015
• Start date: February 2011

Study information

• Verified date: March 2015
• Source: Karolinska Institutet
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Sweden: The National Board of Health and Welfare
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Hemorrhoids is the most common disease in rectum with a prevalence of 30 % of population. This means that many patients are referred to surgical specialist reception with diagnosis hemorrhoidal disease. The aim of this study is to describe population of patients with hemorrhoidal disease that are referred to a specialised colorectal unit and to determine what treatment they are given at a general practitioner as well as in colorectal unit.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 800
• Est. primary completion date: December 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 90 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• all patients with diagnosis hemorrhoidal disease that are referred to a surgical specialist department

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Retrospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Hemorrhoids

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	Ersta hospital	Stockholm

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Karolinska Institutet	Ersta Hospital, Sweden

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Examination/treatment	Examination and treatment given by general practitioner	Before visiting Ersta hospital	No
Other	Operation/complication	Which operations were performed, complications?, reinterventions?	postoperatively	No
Other	genus	Did men and women got the same treatment	between 2007-2009	No
Other	Treated elsewhere		after compleated treatment at Ersta hospital	No
Primary	Correct diagnosis?		patients visiting Ersta Hospital between 2007-2009	No
Secondary	treatment of hemorrhoids	Surgical or conservative treatment, results and number of patients in the groups	patients visiting Ersta Hospital between 2007-2009	No