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Measuring Patient Expectations for Thyroid Surgery
Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Summary
The purpose of this study is to learn more about what patients undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer expect from their surgery. Your input may help us to better prepare and inform patients about their disease and its treatment.
Official title: Measuring Patient Expectations for Thyroid Surgery: Development of a Patient-Reported Outcomes Instrument
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
138
Start Date
2011-07
Completion Date
2026-07
Last Updated
2025-08-03
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
patient interviews
The pre-operative interview will be within 4 weeks of planned surgery and the postoperative interview within 8 weeks of surgery completion. This initial study is designed to develop an instrument to measure patient preoperative expectations in this patient population.
CITSAV survey
Individual semi-structured qualitative interviews will be conducted with a total of 10 patients and 5 clinicians during this phase to identify and discuss levels of satisfaction, level of burden, potential obstacles to implementation, as well as suggestions for improving the intervention
Locations (1)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States