Preoperative anxiety: what are we really doing?

Pasquale Buonanno; Maria Vargas; Annachiara Marra; Carmine Iacovazzo; Giuseppe Servillo

doi:10.23750/abm.v92i3.9329

Preoperative anxiety: what are we really doing?

Authors

Pasquale Buonanno a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:114:"Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, Federico II University, Naples, Italy";}
Maria Vargas Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, Federico II University, Naples, Italy
Annachiara Marra Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, Federico II University, Naples, Italy
Carmine Iacovazzo Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, Federico II University, Naples, Italy
Giuseppe Servillo

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23750/abm.v92i3.9329

Keywords:

Preoperative anxiety, Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale, APAIS

Abstract

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01-07-2021

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Buonanno P, Vargas M, Marra A, Iacovazzo C, Servillo G. Preoperative anxiety: what are we really doing?. Acta Biomed. 2021;92(3):e2021277. doi:10.23750/abm.v92i3.9329

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