title: Reducing patient stress in theatre. Alison Bell Memorial Award.
abstract: For most patients, admission to hospital for surgery can be very stressful. It is well recognised that stress, created by prolonged anxiety, can produce harmful effects and may even delay a patient's recovery following surgery. This article, submitted for the 1999 Alison Bell award (sponsored by NATN and Regent Medical), looks at key ways to reduce the effects of such stress.
authors.affiliation: Clatterbridge Hospital, Bebington.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Welsh
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D009147:Music Therapy; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D019990:Perioperative Care / Q000451:nursing*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000523:psychology*