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A novel visual facial anxiety scale for assessing preoperative anxiety

BACKGROUND: There is currently no widely accepted instrument for measuring preoperative anxiety. The objective of this study was to develop a simple visual facial anxiety scale (VFAS) for assessing acute preoperative anxiety. METHODS: The initial VFAS was comprised of 11 similarly styled stick-figur...

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Autores principales: Cao, Xuezhao, Yumul, Roya, Elvir Lazo, Ofelia Loani, Friedman, Jeremy, Durra, Omar, Zhang, Xiao, White, Paul F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5308844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28196099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171233