Patients postoperatively forget aspects of preoperative patient education

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1066-1069

  Madan, Atul K ^a,b   Tichansky, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b METHODIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Informed consent; Morbid obesity; Patient education; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

BARIATRIC SURGERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFORMED CONSENT; OBESITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BARIATRICS; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; OBESITY, MORBID; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 23644456832     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/0960892054621198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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