Department of Dermatology Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medicine Faculty,Istanbul, Turkey
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Outpatient Surgery and Types of anesthesia.
Author(s): Ertugrul Aydemir*
Four outpatient surgery centers from a large Midwestern community participated
in this study assessing the impact of an intervention—aimed at improving the
collection of patients' pre-operative clinical information—on both the patients'
clinical outcomes and staffs' quality of working life [1]. As part of this study the
investigators developed a patient telephone survey to assess the incidence of
common or undesirable postoperative symptoms and how they were subsequently
managed. This survey was adapted from instruments developed in previous work in
outpatient follow-up and anesthesiology. In addition to symptom assessment and
management, the investigators were interested in determining how participants
rated their medication teaching, pre-operative preparation, and postoperative
education [2.. View More»
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