Waiting for thyroid surgery: A study of psychological morbidity and determinants of health associated with long wait times for thyroid surgery

Laryngoscope

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 541-547

  Eskander, Antoine ^a   Devins, Gerald M ^b   Freeman, Jeremy ^a,c   Wei, Alice C ^d,e   Rotstein, Lorne ^d,e   Chauhan, Nitin ^a   Sawka, Anna M ^b   Brown, Dale ^a,e   Irish, Jonathan ^a,e   Gilbert, Ralph ^a,e   Gullane, Patrick ^a,e   Higgins, Kevin ^a,f   Enepekides, Danny ^a,f   Goldstein, David ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cancer; Depression; Illness Intrusiveness; Level of Evidence: 2c Outcomes Research; Nodule; Sociodemographic Factors; Stress; Thyroid; Wait times

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; ILLNESS INTRUSIVENESS RATINGS SCALE; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PERCEIVED STRESS SCALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROIDECTOMY; TIME; WAITING TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THYROID DISEASES; THYROIDECTOMY; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84873729942     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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