Questionnaire versus telephone follow-up to detect postdischarge complications in surgical patients: Randomized clinical trial

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2576-2583

  Visser, Annelies ^a   Ubbink, Dirk T ^a,b   Gouma, Dirk J ^a   Goslings, J Carel ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TELEPHONE;

DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TELEPHONE;

EID: 84867864815     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-012-1740-8     Document Type: Article

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