Case scheduling preferences of one surgeon's cataract surgery patients

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 579-582

  Dexter, Franklin ^a   Birchansky, Lee ^b   Bernstein, James M ^c   Wachtel, Ruth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Fox Eye Cedar Rapids   (United States)

^c Frank N Magid Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT SCHEDULING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGICAL PATIENT; UNITED STATES; VIGNETTE; AGED; ANXIETY; CATARACT; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

AGED; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANXIETY; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 59649087259     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31818f1651     Document Type: Article

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