Patient satisfaction with continued versus divided anesthetic care

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-14

  Harms, Christoph ^a   Nübling, Matthias ^b   Langewitz, Wolf ^c   Kindler, Christoph H ^c  

^a KLINIK HIRSLANDEN   (Switzerland)

^b Empirical Consulting   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Communication; Patient satisfaction; Physician patient relationship; Preoperative visit; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; POSTANESTHESIA CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIOLOGY; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 33847116676     PISSN: 09528180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2006.04.004     Document Type: Article

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