Patients' perceptions of awake and outpatient craniotomy for brain tumor: A qualitative study - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1056-1060

  Khu, Kathleen Joy ^a   Doglietto, Francesco ^a   Radovanovic, Ivan ^a   Taleb, Faisal ^a   Mendelsohn, Daniel ^a   Zadeh, Gelareh ^a   Bernstein, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Awake craniotomy; Outpatient craniotomy; Patient perception; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOTOMY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 77952027252     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.6.JNS09716     Document Type: Article

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