Nurse-or Surgeon-led Follow-up After Rectal Cancer

Centrallasarettet Västerås

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rectal Cancer

Treatments: Other: Comparison of follow-up

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01045200

DNR 01-498

Details and patient eligibility

About

Follow-up programmes consume a large amount of resources with less time for the surgeon to take on new patients. The aim of this randomised study was to compare patient satisfaction, resource utilisation, and medical safety in patients curatively operated for rectal cancer that were followed-up by a surgeon or a nurse.

Enrollment: 110 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients curatively operated for rectal cancer.
• Patients had to be more than 18 years of age and written and oral informed consent was obtained.

Exclusion criteria

• Those with psychiatric disorders, dementia and whose general condition had deteriorated with an expected survival of less than six months were not eligible.

Trial design

110 participants in 1 patient group

Follow-up

Description:

Patients curatively operated for rectal cancer

Treatment:

Other: Comparison of follow-up