Raising the alarm: a cross-sectional study exploring the factors affecting patients' willingness to escalate care on surgical wards.

Maximilian J. Johnston; Rachel Davis; Sonal Arora; Dominic King; Yannis Reissis; Ara Darzi

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Raising the alarm: a cross-sectional study exploring the factors affecting patients' willingness to escalate care on surgical wards.

June 24, 2015

Johnston MJ, Davis R, Arora S, et al. World J Surg. 2015;39(9):2207-13.

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This cross-sectional study at three London hospitals evaluated factors related to surgical ward patients' willingness to call for help. Although patients were more likely to call a nurse for help, they were more willing to ask for help if encouraged to do so by a doctor rather than a nurse.

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