Research article summary:

Recall of preoperative anaesthesia information in Hong Kong Chinese patients.

Abstract Extract:
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the ability of patients to recall information provided during a preoperative visit. DESIGN: Qualitative study. SETTING: Regional hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS: Sixty patients scheduled for elective surgery under general anaesthesia ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2002Jun in Journal: Hong Kong Med J (Language : eng)

Full Pubmed Extract

This information was retrieved, real-time, on your behalf from the public area of the Pubmed website:

1. Hong Kong Med J. 2002 Jun;8(3):181-4

Recall of preoperative anaesthesia information in Hong Kong Chinese patients.

Cheng BC, Chen PP, Cheng DC, Chu CP, So HY

Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Operating Services, Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, 11 Chuen On Street, Tai Po, Hong Kong.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the ability of patients to recall information provided during a preoperative visit. DESIGN: Qualitative study. SETTING: Regional hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS: Sixty patients scheduled for elective surgery under general anaesthesia or central neuro-axial block. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Satisfactory recall of preoperative information, defined as the ability to remember at least 75% of adverse effects described. RESULTS: Fifty-nine (98.3%) patients were satisfied with the preoperative information. Forty-two (70%) patients rated anaesthetic complications as important. At the interview on the day of the operation, 57 (95%) patients had satisfactory recall of the information provided. Eighty-five percent of patients remembered that the information was provided by an anaesthesiologist. After the operation, of those who experienced adverse effects, 48 (96%) patients remembered being told to anticipate the adverse anaesthetic event. Univariate analysis found that age, sex, education level, occupation, and the modality of anaesthesia did not affect patient recall of preoperative information on the day of surgery or 1 day postsurgery. CONCLUSION. There was satisfactory recall of preoperative information by the majority of patients in the study. Most patients expressed satisfaction with the information provided.

PMID : 12055363 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]

This information is obtained from the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Abstract text and other information may be subject to copyright. Type "NLM copyright" into Google for more information.

Full Author Information

First Name	LastName	Initials
B C P	Cheng	BC
P P	Chen	PP
D C K	Cheng	DC
C P W	Chu	CP
H Y	So	HY

Affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Operating Services, Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, 11 Chuen On Street, Tai Po, Hong Kong.

3rd Party provider links

Click the links below to go to related 3rd party information:

MESH categories and related page links

This article was linked to the MESH categories shown on the left below. The links on the right are related Memletics pages.

Links for this article

For links to places where you can get the full text of this article see links. Note there may be a subscription or fee required for access to the full text.

New! Using similar technology to this site, we have launched find-health-articles.com, targeting over 1 million health research article abstracts.

Here are some articles related to this one (by title keywords):

Clinical validity of the Chinese version of Mattis Dementia Rating Scale in differentiating dementia of Alzheimers type in Hong Kong.

Confirmatory factor analysis and reliability of the Chinese version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory among guidance teachers in Hong Kong.

Impaired explicit memory after recovery from propofol/sufentanil anaesthesia is related to changes in the midlatency auditory evoked response.

Effect of neuropsychiatric symptoms of Alzheimers disease on Chinese and American caregivers.

Roles of dynamic linkage of stable attractors across cortical networks in recalling long-term memory.

Fee-paying systems and service patterns in a Hong Kong dental clinic.

Educational workshop improved information-seeking skills, knowledge, attitudes and the search outcome of hospital clinicians: a randomised controlled trial.

Thinking styles and modes of thinking: implications for education and research.

Theory of planned behavior-based models for breastfeeding duration among Hong Kong mothers.

Task familiarity and task efficacy: a study of sports coaches.

>>> Get more research article abstracts like these, or browse abstracts.

Keywords in this article:

ability, adverse, affect, after, age, anaesthesia, anaesthesiologist, anaesthetic, analysis, anticipate, axial, block, central, complications, conclusion, day, defined, described, design, education, effects, eighty, elective, evaluate, event, experienced, expressed, fifty, five, forty, general, hong, hospital, important, information, interview, kong, least, level, main, majority, measures, modality, neuro, nine, not, objective, occupation, operation, outcome, patients, percent, postsurgery, preoperative, provided, qualitative, rated, recall, regional, remember, remembered, results, satisfaction, satisfactory, satisfied, scheduled, setting, sex, sixty, study, surgery, told, two, under, univariate, visit, who

Also, see our new free speed reading online course (beta version)