Will a 1-Page Informational Handout Decrease Patients' Most Common Fears of Anesthesia and Surgery?

Journal of Surgical Education

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 359-363

  Fitzgerald, Brian Michael ^a   Elder, Jamison ^a  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

awareness; Interpersonal and Communication Skills; Patient Care; patient communication; patient education; postoperative nausea and vomiting; postoperative pain; Professionalism

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; FEAR; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES; UROLOGIC SURGERY; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANXIETY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 52049109667     PISSN: 19317204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2008.07.013     Document Type: Article

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