An observational study in Anesthesia, sponsored by Gødstrup Hospital. Completed at 3 sites in Denmark. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-16.
Sponsored by Gødstrup Hospital · Observational
The goal of this observational study is to learn about current pre-anaesthesia practices in Denmark and patients' experiences of pre-anaesthesia consultations as well as what matters to patients before anaesthesia.
The questions the study aims to answer are:
What are the current pre-anaesthesia practices in Danish public hospitals. How do patients experience pre-anaesthesia consultations in Danish public hospitals.
What matters to patients before anaesthesia in Danish public hospitals.
On the day of surgery, patients answer an online survey about what matters to them when undergoing anaesthesia and whether they spoke with an anaesthesiologist or nurse anaesthetist about the anaesthesia.
Data from the medical chart are obtained to support patients responses. For patients receiving a pre-anaesthesia consultation, we will summarise the degree of person-centredness experienced by patients.
Gødstrup Hospital is the lead sponsor of 24 studies on the registry; 14 are open to participants now.
Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.
Patients undergoing surgery at public hospitals throughout Denmark regardless hospital type (regional versus university hospital), low-income or high-income areas, rural versus urban areas. Thus the study population is representative of the Danish speaking population.
Exclusion Criteria:
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Patients who speak with an anaesthesiologist or nurse anaesthetist about the anaesthesia either face-to-face, telephone based, video based
No contact between patient and an anaesthesiologist or nurse anaesthetist about the anaesthesia (anaesthesiologist or nurse anaesthetist's review of medical charts only).
What matters to you when undergoing anaesthesia?
Open responses to the question about what matters to the patient before anaesthesia. Will be analysed using content analysis focusing on the manifest content rather than the latent content.
Time frame: Baseline
Pre anaesthesia consultation
Descriptive data on how many patients had a pre anaesthesia consultation. Response options: Yes, no, don't know.
Time frame: Baseline
Person-centred pre-anaesthesia practice
Patients who had a pre-anaesthesia consultation answer four questions from the subsection "Working with patients' beliefs and values" on the Person-centred Practice Inventory - Care (PCPI-C). Each item is rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree, disagree, bneutral, agree to strongly agree. The subscale score is calculated as an average of the four items. There are no reverse scoring items. A higher score indicates that patients perceive a higher quality of person-centred care, characterized by stronger alignment with their values, shared decision-making, and authentic relationships with staff. The "Working with patients' beliefs and values" subsection consists of the follwoing questions: "Staff make an effort to understand what is important to me" "I feel able to say to staff what is important to me" "I feel able to give staff feedback about my experience of being cared for" "In caring for me, staff use what they know about me as a person"
Time frame: Baseline
Patients' experiences of pre-anaesthesia consultations
Qualitative study with semi-structured individual telephone-interviews using a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach.
Time frame: Baseline
Educational level
Categorized data where patients mark their highest level of education. Data will be presented descriptively.
Time frame: Baseline
Employment status
Categorical data. Patients mark their employment status. Data will be presented descriptively.
Time frame: Baseline
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification
Data on ASA classification will be obtained from medical journals and described as crude numbers and percentages and by group (pre-anaesthesia consultation versus no pre-anaesthesia consultation)
Time frame: Baseline
Pre-anaesthesia assessment
Data on pre-anaesthesia assessment practices: face-to-face, telephone based, video based, administrative (review of medical charts only), other, as well as date of assessment and done by professional group (anaesthesiologist, nurse anaesthetist, or other). Data will be obtained from medical journals and described as crude numbers and percentages and by group (pre-anaesthesia consultation versus no pre-anaesthesia consultation)
Time frame: Baseline
Planned type of anaesthesia
Type: general, regional, epidural/spinal, sedation, local analgesia. Data will be obtained from medical journals and described as crude numbers and percentages and by group (pre-anaesthesia consultation versus no pre-anaesthesia consultation
Time frame: Baseline
Surgical intervention
Data will be obtained from medicial journals and described as crude numbers and percentages and by group (pre-anaesthesia consultation versus no pre-anaesthesia consultation)
Time frame: Baseline
Duration of surgery
Data will be obtained from medical journals and described as crude numbers and percentages and by group (pre-anaesthesia consultation versus no pre-anaesthesia consultation)
Time frame: Baseline
Cardiac/non-cardiac conditions
Data will be obtained from medical journals and described as crude numbers and percentages and by group (pre-anaesthesia consultation versus no pre-anaesthesia consultation)
Time frame: Baseline
Cancer/non-cancer conditions
Data will be obtained from medical journals and described as crude numbers and percentages and by group (pre-anaesthesia consultation versus no pre-anaesthesia conditions)
Time frame: Baseline
Admission type: ambulatory/non-ambulatory
Data will be obtained from medical journals and described as crude numbers and percentages and by group (pre-anaesthesia consultation versus no pre-anaesthesia consultation)
Time frame: Baseline
Response rate
A response rate will be calculated based on the total number of eligible patients and the number of responses to the questionnaire.
Time frame: Baseline
Plan to share: No
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