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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008 101(2):281-282; doi:10.1093/bja/aen200
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Patients scheduled for admission to intensive care unit: satisfaction with the information and frame of mind

P. Gómez-Carretero*, V. Monsalve Dolz, J. F. Soriano Pastor and J. De Andrés

Valencia, Spain

* E-mail: pgomez212f@cv.gva.es

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Editor—From the time of diagnosis through to treatment patients and their family or primary caregivers may experience emotional stresses,1 such as anxiety. It is broadly recognized that preoperative anxiety experienced by patients can have a negative impact on their subsequent recovery.2 After surgery, some patients are admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), an environment which is considered to have a negative psychological effect on patients. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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