Perception of surgical complications among patients, nurses and physicians: A prospective cross-sectional survey

Patient Safety in Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Slankamenac, Ksenija ^a   Graf, Rolf ^a   Puhan, Milo A ^a,b   Clavien, Pierre Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Nurses and physicians; Patients; Perception; Surgical complications

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLAVIEN DINDO CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

EID: 84857285609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17549493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1754-9493-5-30     Document Type: Article

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