Advocacy planning: were expectations fulfilled?

Knee arthroplasty: are patients' expectations fulfilled?

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE With an aging population expecting an active life after retirement, patients' expectations of improvement after surgery are also increasing. We analyzed the relationship between preoperative expectations and postoperative satisfaction and self-reported outcomes with regard to pain and physical function after knee arthroplasty. PATIENTS AND METHODS 102 patients (39 men) ...

Clinical trials for hypertension: expectations fulfilled and unfulfilled.

Current projections predict that, by the year 2025, 29.2% of the adult population worldwide will have hypertension, a total of 1.56 billion people.1 Such figures are hard to visualize, as are the billions of dollars being spent on the Iraqi invasion. Enough to say that hypertension is now and has long been the most common risk for the most common causes of death in all but the most primitive po...

‘We were not planning on this, but . . .’: Adoptive parents’ reactions and adaptations to unmet expectations

This study explored adoptive parents’ responses to unexpected characteristics of their children with a lens of family stress theory. Ninety individuals in 45 couples, 30 of whom adopted via child welfare and 15 of whom adopted via private domestic adoption, were interviewed 3 months post-adoptive placement regarding unfulfilled expectations about their child’s age, gender, race and special need...

Proportion of Expectations Fulfilled: A New Method to Report Patient-centered Outcomes of Spine Surgery.

STUDY DESIGN Prospective lumbar and cervical surgery cohorts. OBJECTIVE Compare fulfillment of expectations with traditional global outcomes and provide evidence for its validity. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA New lumbar and cervical spine surgery Expectations Surveys can be used to measure fulfillment of expectations and their performance should be compared with existing outcomes. METHODS T...

HIV causes AIDS: Koch's postulates fulfilled.