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January 4, 2017BMC Medicine256 citationsOpen Access

Preoperative optimization of patient expectations improves long-term outcome in heart surgery patients: results of the randomized controlled PSY-HEART trial

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WRWinfried RiefMSMeike Shedden‐MoraJLJohannes A. C. Laferton

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Does preoperative optimization of patient expectations improve long-term outcomes in heart surgery patients?

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Population
Heart surgery patients
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Intervention
Preoperative optimization of patient expectations
O
Outcome
Long-term outcome

Preoperative optimization of patient expectations may improve long-term outcomes in heart surgery patients.

Abstract

Ethical approval for the study was obtained from the IRB of the Medical School, University of Marburg, and the trial was registered at ( NCT01407055 ) on July 25, 2011.

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Rief et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d8c20b17a1cc0598d183b1https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0767-3
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