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CompletedNCT01610726

Economic and Clinical Evaluation of Enhanced Recovery in Colorectal Surgery

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
484 (actual)
Sponsor
Haukeland University Hospital · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the health cost and clinical outcome by introducing enhanced recovery (ERAS) compared to conventional recovery in colorectal surgery.

Detailed description

Aim of the sudy: 1. Clinical evaluation: To investigate if patients treated with enhanced recovery have a shorter hospital stay and less morbidity than the patients treated conventionally. Other clinical questions witch might be answered in this study are clinical surgical stress response (insulin resistent), amount of analgetics used and time to normal activity. 2. Evaluation of quality of life: Instruments used in this sudy to evaluate quality of life are 15 D and qualitative interview. 3. Economic evaluation: Cost-utility analysis of the clinical studies 4. Compare patients who received a fast track program with dedicated fast track- and stoma nurse specialist and special focus on counselling and stoma education, compared with patients receiving existing current practice of stoma-education in a traditional care pathway, could reduce the length of hospital stay, readmission and stoma related complications 5. Further we will tray to generate additional insights into the impact of counselling when groups of patients are otherwise equal in terms of fast-track criteria. We are therefore continuing the enrolling of our colorectal patients in which both study arms contain the same ERAS items; the arms will only differ in terms of perioperative information and guidance as well as follow-up by dedicated nurses.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
PROCEDUREEnhanced versus conventional recovery in colorectal surgeryEnhanced recovery (extended informations to the patients, change of anesthetic procedure, intravenous versus gas, and intensified mobilisation) versus conventional recovery

Timeline

Start date
2012-02-01
Primary completion
2016-12-01
Completion
2016-12-01
First posted
2012-06-04
Last updated
2017-11-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01610726. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.