NCT02422680

Patient Satisfaction With Colonoscopy in a Danish Setting - What Are the Most Important Factors?

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Aalborg University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aim is to investigate factors associated with patient satisfaction during a colonoscopy.

Detailed description

The study aim to capture key quality indicators and patient satisfaction for 800 patients referred for a colonoscopy at Aalborg University Hospital. The patient population is mix of screening and non-screening colonoscopies seen at our out-patient clinic. Each Colonoscopy is registered using a specially designed registration form and a more detailed form relating to the colonoscopy itself. The data collected includes: The Colonoscopist endoscopy experience and education, Medicine use, Colonoscopy duration, Unadjusted Caecum Intubations rate, Polyp detection rate, Polyps removed, Cancer detection rate and Nurse assisted Gloucester Comfort score. Patient level data were recorded using a questionaire with 6 questions regarding satisfaction, pain, discomfort etc on a 10 cm analog scale.

Conditions

• Colorectal Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	No intervention, purely observational.	No intervention is made other than following existing guidelines for colonoscopy. Further treatment and/or renewed colonoscopy in case of positive findings follows existing guidelines. The group is used only used to collect quality assurance data.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-03-23
• Primary completion: 2015-09-30
• Completion: 2019-12-31
• First posted: 2015-04-21
• Last updated: 2019-07-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark