Patient morbidity following oral day surgery - Use of a post-operative telephone questionnaire

Ambulatory Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 122-127

  Thomson, P J ^a   Fletcher, I R ^b   Briggs, S ^a   Barthram, D ^a   Cato, G ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Day surgery; Nurse led; Post operative morbidity

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENTAL SURGERY; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE; MORBIDITY; NURSE; ORAL SURGERY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCRIPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP DISORDER; SORE THROAT; TELEPHONE; TOOTH DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0345686507     PISSN: 09666532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-6532(03)00006-4     Document Type: Article

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