Key result
Usual preoperative education remains highly variable and depends largely on the individual nurse.
Why the study?
The usual preoperative education patients receive is largely elusive and unexplored despite its frequent use as a comparator in experimental studies.
Comparison
Usual preoperative education practices
Design
Qualitative study using in-depth interviews and grounded theory analysis
Authors
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Variable nurse-dependent preoperative education may undermine consistent preparation; leaves open its suitability as a control in trials.
Usual care in preoperative education is highly variable and dependent on individual nurses, raising methodological concerns when using it as a control group in experimental studies.
Fitzpatrick et al. (2005) studied Preoperative education (n=12). Usual preoperative education was evaluated on Characteristics of usual preoperative education. Usual preoperative education was characterized as uneven, variable, and mutable, depending largely on the individual nurse caring for the patient.
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