Postoperative Telephone Calls: Timing Is Everything

AORN Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-51

  Flanagan, Jane ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

arthroscopy; same day outpatient surgery; telephone follow up

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TELENURSING; TELEPHONE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ARTHROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ENGLAND; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TELENURSING; TELEPHONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67649519662     PISSN: 00012092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aorn.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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