Online video versus face-to-face preoperative consultation for major abdominal surgery (VIDEOGO): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial.
Ten Haaft BHEA; Janssen BV; Barsom EZ; Hehenkamp WJK; van Berge Henegouwen MI; Busch OR; van Dieren S; Erdmann JI; Eshuis WJ; Gisbertz SS; Luyer MDP; Damman OC; de Bruijne MC; Kazemier G; Schijven MP; Besselink MG
Researchers wanted to see if talking to doctors online before big belly surgery was as good as talking in person. They checked if patients liked both ways and if they remembered the doctor’s advice well.