Evaluation of Coaching Impact on Surgical Outcomes (TopSurgeons)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Surgery

Treatments: Behavioral: Coaching program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04532658

TOPSURGEONS_2020

Details and patient eligibility

About

This two arms parallel cluster-randomized trial will evaluate the impact of a customized coaching program for surgeons on the occurrence of patient major adverse events. Trends in surgical outcomes before and after the intervention will be compared between surgeons randomly assigned to the coaching program against non-exposed surgeons.

Enrollment: 20,791 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All adults needing a surgery who are operated by one of the participating surgeons

Exclusion criteria

• Age < 18 years old
• Absence of surgical procedure
• Palliative care
• Organ transplantation
• Refusal for personal data sharing

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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20,791 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention arm

Experimental group

Description:

Surgeons randomly assigned to the intervention arm

Treatment:

Behavioral: Coaching program

Control arm

No Intervention group

Description:

Surgeons randomly assigned to the control arm