ArticleFrontiers in surgery2025
Patient recall of postoperative protocols following hand surgery does not differ by information provider: a randomized clinical trial.
Article in Frontiers in surgery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03893968 (Are Doctors and Assistant Nurses Equally Good at Informing Patients), which is not on this map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Are Doctors and Assistant Nurses Equally Good at Informing Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Information Recall Regarding Postoperative Self-care
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Abstract
Understanding of postoperative care is limited in patients who undergo ambulatory surgery. This study compares patients' recall of information regarding postoperative self-care when being verbally informed by either a surgeon or assistant nurse postoperatively prior to discharge. Secondary objectives for this study are to compare differences in patients' level of "feeling that they understood the information", stress, and satisfaction. A non-blinded randomized single-center controlled trial was conducted at a hand surgical unit in Northern Sweden (Trial Registration ID: NCT03893968). Patients were randomized into a control (surgeon) or intervention group (assistant nurse). Patients were asked seven questions about postoperative self-care one week postoperatively via telephone call, yielding a maximum score of seven points. Thirty-nine patients were informed by assistant nurses, and thirty-three patients were informed by surgeons. There was no difference in recall between the two groups (4.95 vs. 5.15,
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