Searches of PubMed, The Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database, and the National Guideline Clearinghouse yielded the following practice guideline.
Whitaker Chair, D K, et al. “Immediate post-anaesthesia recovery 2013: Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.” Anaesthesia 68.3 (2013):288-297.
The abstract states, “The standard of nursing and medical care should be equal to that in the hospital’s critical care units.”
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A search of Joanna Briggs Institute and PubMed identified the following references.
The PubMed search included terms for these concepts: preoperative period, pain, psychology, adults, patient education.
From Joanna Briggs:
Cabilan C, et al. Prehabilitation for surgical patients: a systematic review protocol. 2013.
This is protocol for a systematic review, but in the background information, it references several papers on presurgical interventions specifically concerning the outcome of pain.
Stern C. Knowledge retention from preoperative patient information. 2005 (updated 2010).
This systematic review references several studies investigating usefulness of preoperative education on outcomes such as pain.
This search may include references cited in the Joanna Briggs reviews. It also includes a systematic review on outcomes of preoperative patient education in surgical setting:
Ronco M, et al. Patient education outcomes in surgery: a systematic review from 2004 to 2010. Int J Evid Based Healthc. 2012 Dec;10(4):309-23.
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