PATIENTS EXPECTATIONS IN RELATION TO OUTCOME OF TOTAL HIP-REPLACEMENT SURGERY
PATIENTS EXPECTATIONS IN RELATION TO OUTCOME OF TOTAL HIP-REPLACEMENT SURGERY
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DOI:
10.1136/ard.38.5.471
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
影响因子:
27.4
通讯作者:
RICHARDS, J
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作者:
BURTON, KE;WRIGHT, V;RICHARDS, J
The important of expectations was assessed by giving 88 patients who had undergone total hip relacement surgery a series of visual analog scales to provide a pain score, a 5-point rating scale to assess their remembered expectations, and an interview to establish clinical, functional, social and psychological data. Patients generally had high expectations, but only 55% had their expectations fulfilled. Despite this, 86% claimed the operation to be successful, though when questioned more closely, patients noted a certain amount of displeasure about the outcome. When the sample was split into 2 groups of fulfilled and unfulfilled expectations, significant differences were noted in that the quality of life enjoyed by the former group was greater than that enjoyed by the latter group. Apparently the notion of success is not as effective as the notion of expectations as a measure of the outcome of total hip replacement surgery.