Measuring Patient Expectations for Thyroid Surgery

The pre-operative interview will be within 4 weeks of planned surgery and the postoperative interview within 8 weeks of surgery completion. This initial study is designed to develop an instrument to measure patient preoperative expectations in this patient population.

Individual semi-structured qualitative interviews will be conducted with a total of 10 patients and 5 clinicians during this phase to identify and discuss levels of satisfaction, level of burden, potential obstacles to implementation, as well as suggestions for improving the intervention