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Psychological responses to open heart surgery have been reviewed across various study designs, revealing a need for future research to better understand these outcomes.
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What are the psychological responses to open heart surgery?
What are the psychological responses to open heart surgery?
This review summarizes the literature on psychological responses to open heart surgery and suggests directions for future research.
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Does not yet inform clinical management of psychological responses after open heart surgery; leaves open the design of targeted prospective studies.
In this review of the literature, reports of case, actuarial, correlational, and natural process studies of the psychological responses to open heart surgery are presented, their findings are compared, and directions for future research are suggested.
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Nancy L. Elsberry (1972) studied this question. Psychological responses to open heart surgery have been reviewed across various study designs, revealing a need for future research to better understand these outcomes.
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