Although there have been many studies focusing on the increasingly important assessment
of patients' satisfaction, few studies have specifically addressed this issue for total hip …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Annually, 38 million people are evaluated for trauma, the leading
cause of death in persons younger than 45 years. The primary objective is to assess whether …

Background: Patients’ expectations of medical care are linked to their requests for treatment
and to their assessments of outcome and satisfaction. Our goals were to measure patients" …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify patient, clinical, and surgical factors that
may predispose patients to anastomotic leak (AL) after large bowel surgery. Background: …

Self-efficacy, a known predictor of a wide range of health behaviors, has not been investigated
in studies of adherence to antihypertensive medications. A medication adherence self-…

… Supported by a Robert Wood Johnson Generafist Physician Faculty Scholars Award to
Carol A. Mancuso, MD. The authors thank the attendings and house staff at the Cornell Internal …

Patients have multiple expectations of THA and TKA. We asked whether preoperative
educational classes addressing recovery during the first year could modify patients’ expectations …

A lack of consensus regarding the indications for total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee
arthroplasty (TKA) has been cited as one reason for the variations in the rates of THA and …

Background: Fulfillment of patient expectations is an important outcome of total hip arthroplasty.
The objective of the present study was to determine the proportion of expectations that …

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of depressive symptoms on asthma patients’ reports of
functional status and health-related quality of life. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: …