Postoperative follow-up: is a phone call enough?

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 83-86

  McVay, Marcene R ^a   Kelley, Karen R ^a   Mathews, Donna L ^a   Jackson, Richard J ^a   Kokoska, Evan R ^a   Smith, Samuel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

Pediatric surgical care; Postoperative follow up; Telephone follow up

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ILEUS; INGUINAL HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STOMACH FISTULA; TELEPHONE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; AFTERCARE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; NURSE'S ROLE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TELEPHONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38149007751     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2007.09.025     Document Type: Article

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