Is Self-Reported Quality Assessment in Surgery Reliable?

University of Zurich (UZH)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Patients of Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery

Treatments: Procedure: Reliability of complication assessment

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00548535

DDI1007

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim of the study is to evaluate the reliability of self-reported surgical outcome by residents

• prospective assessment of postoperative complications done by residents using a validated five-scale complication classification
• simultanously, complications will be prospectively assessed in the same manner by an external clinical nurse
• Trial with surgical intervention

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients undergoing elective surgery

Exclusion criteria

• Patients not undergoing surgery
• Patient in outpatient setting