Construction of knowledge of the disease by patients after carotid endarterectomy.
cross_sectional · Level IV
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 12023103.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
The aim of this work was to characterize the knowledge that patients have of their disease. A special questionnaire was distributed (in 1998) to 33 patients with ischemic cerebrovascular disease who underwent carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in 1995-1996. The results show that the knowledge of patients is fragmentary, hermetic, and static, at the same time serving as their basic perceptive-cognitive filter.