Patient satisfaction with general anaesthesia: Too difficult to measure?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 327-332

  Whitty, P M ^a   Shaw, I H ^b   Goodwin, D R ^b  

^a Public Health Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; audits

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL AUDIT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0029945587     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1996.tb07741.x     Document Type: Article

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