What Are Patients Really Telling Us? Comparison of Survey Responses and the Medical Record in Cardiovascular Surgical Patients

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1888-1896

  Brown, Morgan L ^a   Quinonez, Luis G ^b   Schaff, Hartzell V ^a   Sundt III, Thoralf M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BLEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CONSULTATION; CORONARY STENT; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; SURGICAL PATIENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56049117193     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.08.054     Document Type: Article

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