Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03348072
Comparative Study of Survival and Long-term Quality of Life After Cardiac Surgery in Patients Who Are Jehovah's Witnesses
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 93 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Pierre Wauthy · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
This is a comparative study on the survival and long-term quality of life of Jehovah's witnesses having undergone a cardiac surgery and having refused blood transfusions for religious reasons. This group will be compared with two other groups having no restrictions on this subject. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the impact of this decision on survival and postoperative quality of life, in the long term.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | Cardiac surgery | Cardiac surgery |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2016-02-01
- Primary completion
- 2017-03-01
- Completion
- 2017-03-01
- First posted
- 2017-11-20
- Last updated
- 2017-11-22
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Belgium
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03348072. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.