Patients undergoing perioperative care desire more comprehensive information and involvement to reduce anxiety and stress throughout the surgical journey.
May guide perioperative communication strategies; leaves open whether increased involvement improves outcomes in trials.
Information collected in these patients' focus groups should inform future research and healthcare planning. Patients demand receiving more comprehensive and understandable information and more involvement in several steps; this could reduce fears and stress/anxiety described across the perioperative process. Importantly, findings also extend to the postoperative period and home arrival.
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