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Healthcare professionals agreed that patients have a great need for repeated, comprehensive perioperative information to reduce anxiety and feel safe before elective colon surgery.
Healthcare professionals perceive that patients undergoing elective colon surgery have a significant need for repeated, comprehensive perioperative information to reduce anxiety and improve involvement.
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May inform preoperative education protocols; leaves open whether repeated information reduces anxiety in elective colon surgery.
Sjöstedt et al. (2011) studied Elective colon surgery (n=49). Perioperative information and communication was evaluated on Nurses' and doctors' experience of patients' need for information before intraoperative care. Healthcare professionals agreed that patients have a great need for repeated, comprehensive perioperative information to reduce anxiety and feel safe before elective colon surgery.
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