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NCT Number: NCT07535450

Pre-anaesthesia Reviews in Denmark - Status of a Person-centred Approach

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Anesthesia

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients, who can read/write Danish and can give informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

-

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. What matters to you when undergoing anaesthesia?

    Time frame: Baseline

    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.

  2. Pre anaesthesia consultation

    Time frame: Baseline

    Descriptive data on how many patients had a pre anaesthesia consultation. Response options: Yes, no, don't know.

  3. Person-centred pre-anaesthesia practice

    Time frame: Baseline

    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"

  4. Patients' experiences of pre-anaesthesia consultations

    Time frame: Baseline

    Qualitative study with semi-structured individual telephone-interviews using a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Educational level

    Time frame: Baseline

    Categorized data where patients mark their highest level of education. Data will be presented descriptively.

  2. Employment status

    Time frame: Baseline

    Categorical data. Patients mark their employment status. Data will be presented descriptively.

  3. The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification

    Time frame: Baseline

    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)

  4. Pre-anaesthesia assessment

    Time frame: Baseline

    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)

  5. Planned type of anaesthesia

    Time frame: Baseline

    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

  6. Surgical intervention

    Time frame: Baseline

    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)

  7. Duration of surgery

    Time frame: Baseline

    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)

  8. Cardiac/non-cardiac conditions

    Time frame: Baseline

    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)

  9. Cancer/non-cancer conditions

    Time frame: Baseline

    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)

  10. Admission type: ambulatory/non-ambulatory

    Time frame: Baseline

    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)

Other outcomes

  1. Response rate

    Time frame: Baseline

    A response rate will be calculated based on the total number of eligible patients and the number of responses to the questionnaire.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Anne H Nielsen, Associate professor

CONTACT

[email protected]

+45 2015 8924

Hejdi Gamst-Jensen, Associate professor

CONTACT

+45 25117804

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Gødstrup Hospital

Other

Collaborators

  • Aalborg University Hospital
  • Aarhus University Hospital
  • Odense University Hospital
  • Regionshospitalet Horsens
  • Rigshospitalet, Denmark
  • Zealand University Hospital

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Apr 17, 2026
Registry last updated
Apr 17, 2026

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