Is Self-Reported Quality Assessment in Surgery Reliable?

Patients of Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00548535
• Other study ID #: DDI1007
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 23, 2007
• Last updated: October 23, 2007
• Start date: January 2007
• Est. completion date: January 2008

Study information

• Verified date: October 2007
• Source: University of Zurich
• Contact: Daniel Dindo, MD
• Phone: +41 (0)44 255 11 11
• Email: daniel.dindo[@]usz.ch
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Switzerland: Swissmedic
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Aim of the study is to evaluate the reliability of self-reported surgical outcome by residents

• prospective assessment of postoperative complications done by residents using a validated five-scale complication classification

• simultanously, complications will be prospectively assessed in the same manner by an external clinical nurse

• Trial with surgical intervention

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: January 2008
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 90 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria:

• All patients undergoing elective surgery

Exclusion criteria:

• Patients not undergoing surgery

• Patient in outpatient setting

Study Design

Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Patients of Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery

Intervention

Procedure:
• Reliability of complication assessment

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Switzerland	University Hospital of Zurich	Zurich

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Zurich

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Switzerland,