What information do patients waiting for and undergoing arthroplastic surgery want? Their side of the story

Editor’s comment This essential study serves to confirm what health care professionals may feel they know but importantly from the patient’s perspective. Mixing pre- and post-surgery participants in the focus groups was interesting but may have affected the responses from the pre-operative participants once they had heard the post-operative participants’ comments. The discussion explores issues related to this area of health that were not necessarily covered by the initial research aims.

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