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

Nurse-or Surgeon-led Follow-up After Rectal Cancer: a Randomised Trial.

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.

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.