Patients' assessment of 4-week recovery after ambulatory surgery

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 92-98

  Brattwall, M ^a   Warren Stomberg M ^b,c   Rawal, N ^d   Segerdahl, M ^e   Jakobsson, J ^e   Houltz, E ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^d ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODEINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INGUINAL HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECOVERY ROOM; SELF EVALUATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ARTHROSCOPY; BANDAGES; BREAST IMPLANTS; DATA COLLECTION; DEPRESSION; EDEMA; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 78650017521     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2010.02322.x     Document Type: Article

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