Patients' desire for peri-operative information: Jamaican attitudes

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 159-163

  Crawford Sykes, Annette M ^a   Hambleton, I R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; JAMAICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT RIGHT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; JAMAICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT RIGHTS; PATIENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 0035376540     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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