NCT02398721

Study on HRQOL and Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Management of Patients With <2cm Thyroid Nodules

A Prospective Randomized Study on Health-related Quality of Life of Patients With Incidental Small (<2cm) Asymptomatic Thyroid Nodules and Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Managing Small Incidental Thyroid Nodules

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 314 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Ideally randomized controlled trials should be carried out to compare the cost-effectiveness between FNAC and watchful waiting but such studies are very difficult to conduct in practice because they require following up very large number of subjects for a long period of time. The aims are to determine the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and HRQOL preference (utility) of patients undergoing watchful observation (no FNAC) and routine FNAC, and to determine the cost-effectiveness of two strategies in managing small incidental thyroid nodules for the Chinese population in Hong Kong.

Conditions

• Thyroid Nodules

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-03-31
• Primary completion: 2017-07-01
• Completion: 2018-02-01
• First posted: 2015-03-25
• Last updated: 2018-05-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong