Acta oto-laryngologica
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Acta oto-laryngologica · Nov 2004
Patient contact with healthcare professionals after elective tonsillectomy.
To assess the amount and causes of patient contact with healthcare professionals after elective tonsillectomy. ⋯ Although the patients repeatedly received both written and oral information, nearly half of them still contacted healthcare professionals during the recovery period. Frequent post-tonsillectomy contact should be taken into account when the financial and personnel resources of day surgery units are evaluated. In order to reduce the amount of post-tonsillectomy contact with healthcare professionals, careful attention must be paid to the quality of patient counseling prior to discharge.