AORN Journal
Volume 90, Issue 1 , Pages 41-51 , July 2009

Postoperative Telephone Calls: Timing Is Everything

  • Jane Flanagan, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Jane Flanagan, RN, PhD, is an assistant professor of nursing at the Connell School of Nursing Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.

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 Editor's note: This research was funded by a grant from AORN. The quantitative results of this study were published in the April-June 2009 issue of International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classifications (Flanagan J, Jones D. “High-frequency nursing diagnoses following same-day knee arthroscopy.” Int J Nurs Terminol Classif. 2009;20[2]:89–95).

PII: S0001-2092(09)00259-2

doi: 10.1016/j.aorn.2009.04.001

AORN Journal
Volume 90, Issue 1 , Pages 41-51 , July 2009

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