Are we informing our patients correctly? Evaluation of perioperative counselling for paediatric intestinal stoma formation: a national study.

Purpose: Adequate preoperative information is known to improve patient outcomes. We aimed to evaluate perioperative education for paediatric patients and families undergoing intestinal stoma formation.

Methods: UK paediatric surgery centres were invited to recruit patients aged 6-16 years with a stoma in situ or reversed within the last 2 years.