Anxiety and surgical recovery: Reinterpreting the literature

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 589-596

  Munafò, Marcus R ^a,b   Stevenson, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Prediction; Self report; State Trait Anxiety Inventory; Surgery; Surgical patients; Surgical recovery

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ASSOCIATION; CONVALESCENCE; DATA BASE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOOD; PEER REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SELF REPORT;

EID: 0034766405     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3999(01)00258-6     Document Type: Article

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