NCT04693273

Novel Decision Aid for Carpal Tunnel Patients

Novel Decision Aid for Carpal Tunnel Patients: Exploring Patient Preferences Between WALANT and Traditional Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Henry Ford Health System · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A questionnaire will be given to patients who are considering undergoing hand surgery as a treatment for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome to help participants decide between two surgical options- Wide-Awake-Local-Anesthesia-no-Tourniquet (WALANT) and traditional open hand surgery. These patients will be asked to complete a pre-questionnaire knowledge test and a post-questionnaire knowledge test. the primary objective is to validate this questionnaire to be used by other orthopedic surgeons. This study will also reveal patient preference between these two surgical treatments for carpal tunnel syndrome.

Conditions

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Decision Aid for Surgical Modality Choice	A novel decision aid that helps surgical patients choose between Wide-Awake carpal tunnel release and traditional tourniquet surgery. It involves an orientation-memory-concentration test to test if patients are cognitively capable of making decisions, then the decision aid table that has similarities and differences between the two modalities, and a few survey questions that help the investigators know what the patients prefer. Finally, patients finish the decision conflict test to see how confident these patients are about their preference.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-02-12
• Primary completion: 2021-01-20
• Completion: 2021-01-20
• First posted: 2021-01-05
• Last updated: 2021-08-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States