BACKGROUND Preoperative patient education (PE) has been used by many institutions to deal with patient anxiety, pain control, and overall satisfaction. Although the literature suggests PE's effectiveness in joint reconstruction, data are missing in spinal surgery. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed patients having elective spinal surgery who underwent PE (spine pre-care class) from October 2...

1Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pisa Medical School, Pisa, Italy; 2Division of Surgery, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, California; 3Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine Department, Regional Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy; 4Institute of Endocrine Surgery, University of Pisa Medical School, Pisa, Italy; and 5Institute of General Surgery, University of Padua Medical S...

Patient Education Materials Chrysanne Di Marco1, Peter Bray2, Dominic Covvey1, Don Cowan1, Vic Di Ciccio1, Eduard Hovy3, Joan Lipa2, and Cathy Yang1 1 University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada [email protected] 2 Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery and Department of Surgical Oncology, University Health Network, University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3 Informati...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Patients' knowledge deficits concerning anesthesia and the anesthesiologist's role in their care may contribute to anxiety. The objective of this study was to develop anesthesia patient education materials that would help improve patient's satisfaction regarding their knowledge of the perioperative process and decrease anxiety in a community hospital with a large Spani...

preoperative medical consultations; hence, reducing unnecessary consultations among low-risk patients while potentially increasing consultations among high-risk individuals. Notably, the existing variability in preoperative consultation practice may actually be helpful in designing initiatives to improve the appropriateness of preoperative medical consultations. Specifically, in characterizing ...