Symptom distress and functional status changes during the first seven days after ambulatory surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 739-745

  Swan, Beth Ann ^a,c   Maislin, Greg ^b   Traber, Karen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Biomedical Statistical Consulting   (United States)

^c Biomedical Statistical Consulting ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HERNIA; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPY; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ABSENTEEISM; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; COHORT STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031956579     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199804000-00012     Document Type: Article

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