Patient recovery from heart surgery during the Covid-19 pandemic [COVID-19]
Research type
Research Study
Full title
An observational cohort study to explore patient outcome from heart surgery during the Covid-19 pandemic (CardiacCovid)
IRAS ID
282411
Contact name
Julie Sanders
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Barts Health NHS Trust Joint Research Management Office
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 8 months, 30 days
Research summary
The effect of having heart surgery during a pandemic/national emergency on patient recovery is not known. Thus, we aim to describe and explore the recovery process of patients undergoing cardiac surgery during the covid-19 pandemic\n\nWe will recruit adult (>18 years) patients undergoing cardiac surgery and who are being prepared for discharge/transfer to another organization during the pandemic. Those unable/willing to provide written informed consent, or are unable/willing to complete the questionnaires will not be eligible to participate.\n\nThe areas of recovery we wish to follow-up on are survival, morbidity/health service usage (collected using a standardized form to record visits to the general practitioner, hospital etc), health-related quality of life (measured using the EQ5D-5L questionnaire), event-specific distress (measured using the IES-R questionnaire) and depression (measured using the CES-D) questionnaire. We would measure them all at discharge/transfer from hospital, 6 weeks, 6 months and 1 year after surgery. At 1 week after surgery we will also ask for completion of the IES-R. At each time-point a member of the research team will contact the patient (telephone call or videocall, depending on participant preference) to remind/support questionnaire completion. For the early time-points (at discharge from hospital, 1 week and perhaps also 6 weeks) questionnaires may need to be completed on paper while a secure online platform is developed. All data will be held securely at the local hospital while this is being done.\n\nWe will undertake this study at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, which is the command centre for cardiac surgery in London during the pandemic. However, we have written this application on the basis that other UK centres can participate, if they wish to do so. In this instance, St Bartholomew’s Hospital will be the lead centre.
REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Sheffield Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
20/YH/0132
Date of REC Opinion
16 Apr 2020
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion