Patient Preferences and Experiences of Waiting for Heart Surgery

Cardiac Disease Clinical Trial

Official title:

Investigating Patient Preferences and Experiences of Waiting for Elective Heart Surgery: a Cross-sectional Online Survey

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05996640
• Other study ID #: 319498
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Start date: August 14, 2023
• Est. completion date: November 15, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: July 2023
• Source: King's College London
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Waiting for heart surgery could be difficult and anxiety-provoking for some patients. Research suggests that some specific factors (e.g., individual coping strategies, communication with the clinical team, having a more active role in care decision-making) could reduce the stress associated with waiting. However, most of this research has looked at patients waiting for other types of surgery (e.g., cancer surgery). Therefore, more research focusing on patients waiting for heart surgery is needed.

This project aims to investigate patients' experiences, perceptions and preferences about waiting for elective (non-emergency) heart surgery across four London-based National Health Service (NHS) hospitals that belong to King's Health Partners (KHP): Royal Brompton, Harefield, St Thomas', and King's College hospitals. The project is led by the research team at King's Improvement Science, (King's College London), in collaboration with clinicians and patients with lived experience of waiting for heart surgery.

This project will look at:

• how patients feel their heart condition affects their day-to-day life;

• how patients experience being on a waiting list;

• what factors patients consider as most important for their upcoming surgery (e.g. to have their surgery as soon as possible, at their nearest hospital, or carried out by a specific surgeon);

• patients' opinions about how the heart surgery waiting list process could be improved.

Adult patients (>18 years old) waiting for elective heart surgery at the four hospitals listed above will be invited, via a text message and a letter, to complete an online survey (i.e. a list of questions). Completing reading study information and completing the survey will likely take approximately 30 minutes. The survey will be open for 8 weeks in total.

Findings from this project, together with other work looking at clinical processes and outcomes across heart surgery services at the four KHP hospitals, will inform a wider quality improvement project.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 268
• Est. completion date: November 15, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: November 15, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 99 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• being on a waiting list for elective cardiac surgery under any of the following surgical prioritisation categories P2, P3, and P4;

• being at least 18 years old;

• being on a waiting list for cardiac surgery across any of the four KHP participating sites: RBH, HH, STH, and KCH.

Exclusion Criteria:

• being on a waiting list for cardiac surgery at sites other than Royal Brompton Hospital, Harefield Hospital, St Thomas Hospital, and King's College Hospital;

• not having any recorded contact details in the form of mobile phone and home address

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cardiac Disease
• Heart Diseases

Intervention

Other:
• This is study does not use an intervention
This is study does not use an intervention. A survey will be used to collected data on patients' experiences and preferences about waiting list for heart surgery.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
King's College London

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Patient experience	ratings on impact of heart condition on life	8 weeks
Primary	Patient preferences	qualitative description of preferences about service improvement	8 weeks