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A comparison of conventional and retrospective measures of change in symptoms after elective surgery

BACKGROUND: Measuring change is fundamental to evaluations, health services research and quality management. To date, the Gold-Standard is the prospective assessment of pre- to postoperative change. However, this is not always possible (e.g. in emergencies). Instead a retrospective approach to the m...

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Autores principales: Bitzer, Eva M, Petrucci, Marco, Lorenz, Christoph, Hussein, Rugzan, Dörning, Hans, Trojan, Alf, Nickel, Stefan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3083321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21481271
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-9-23