Patient Expectation Of A Voice Clinic Consultation: Development Of The Acapela Questionnaire By Assessment Of Four Hundred And Fifty-Five Patients

We need to understand our patients' expectations to be able to improve subjective outcomes, whilst delivering the best evidence-based care possible. We believe we are the first to present data reporting patients' expectations in a Voice Clinic patient cohort. There is a lack of evidence and understanding of patient expectation and its relationship with patient care. It is envisaged that our ACaPELa questionnaire will be used in routine clinical practice to not only establish patients' expectation from a laryngology consultation, both clinical and therapy based, but will also be used post consultation to assess whether these expectations have been achieved, or not. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.