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Orthopedic Trauma and Fracture Care: Patient Expectations and Fulfillment in Clinical Practice

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine aims to add more insights on the important topic of patient-reported outcomes in trauma surgery care. To date, it has already been highlighted that measuring patients´ expectations and fulfillment is a powerful tool to compare preoperative expectations and perceived improvement postoperatively. Understanding expectations and fulfillment in trauma surgery helps to highlight areas for improvement in guiding patients towards realistic expectations and establishing better care. With such information, surgeons can assist in setting realistic patient expectations and goals. This has the potential to provide valuable additional support for patients whose expectations may not have been fully met. To achieve these objectives, it is of high relevance to add data to the existing literature that directly assesses patients' expectations and fulfillment in trauma surgery. With this Special Issue, we aim to fill a gap in the exisiting literature on this topic. We encourage you to share your valuable data with us.

Dr. Tim Saier
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • fracture
  • trauma surgery
  • patient-reported outcome
  • expectation
  • fulfillment

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