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An innovative warming strategy to increase patient satisfaction
Author(s) -
Jonathan Palmer,
Michael Soucier,
Jacob Deeds
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1538-8689
pISSN - 0360-4039
DOI - 10.1097/01.nurse.0000559920.61696.84
Subject(s) - anxiety , patient satisfaction , center (category theory) , thermal comfort , trauma center , psychology , medicine , medical emergency , nursing , surgery , psychiatry , meteorology , geography , chemistry , retrospective cohort study , crystallography
Thermal comfort helps patients maintain normothermia, decreases preoperative anxiety, and increases their sense of well-being. This article details an initiative to improve surgical patient satisfaction with thermal comfort using reflective blankets at a 115-bed major medical center and Level III trauma center in the Southwest US.

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