Sources of information used by patients prior to elective surgery: a scoping review.

CONCLUSION: There is considerable variability regarding the types of information patients use in their decision to undergo elective surgery. The most common source of health information (face-to-face interaction with medical personnel) raises the question that the information provided could be incomplete and/or biased, and dependent on what their health provider knew or chose to tell them.
PMID: 31383690 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Australian Family Physician - August 4, 2019 Category: Primary Care Authors: Atlas A, Milanese S, Grimmer K, Barras S, Stephens JH Tags: BMJ Open Source Type: research