Postoperative telephone calls: timing is everything.

Having nurses contact same-day surgical patients by telephone early in the patients' recovery process may help guide recovery, but there are no guidelines as to the best time to make these calls. A convenience sample of 77 patients undergoing same-day knee arthroscopy surgery at a large health care...

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Published in:AORN Journal Vol. 90; no. 1; pp. 41 - 52
Main Author: Flanagan J
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jul2009
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