Patient Empowerment Improved Perioperative Quality of Care in Cancer Patients Aged ≥ 65 Years – A Randomized Controlled Trial

Maren Schmidt; Rahel Eckardt; Kathrin Scholtz; Bruno Neuner; Vera von Dossow-Hanfstingl; Jalid Sehouli; Christian G. Stief; Klaus-Dieter Wernecke; Claudia D. Spies; PERATECS Group

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0137824

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Patient Empowerment Improved Perioperative Quality of Care in Cancer Patients Aged ≥ 65 Years – A Randomized Controlled Trial

Maren Schmidt,

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Charité Mitte and Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Rahel Eckardt,

Affiliation Charité Research Group on Geriatrics, Charité- Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Kathrin Scholtz,

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Charité Mitte and Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Bruno Neuner,

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Charité Mitte and Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Vera von Dossow-Hanfstingl,

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Munich-Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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Jalid Sehouli,

Affiliation Department of Gynecology, European Competence Center of Ovarian Cancer, Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité- Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Christian G. Stief,

Affiliation Department of Urology, University Hospital Munich-Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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Klaus-Dieter Wernecke,

Affiliation Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin and SoStAna GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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Claudia D. Spies ,

* E-mail: claudia.spies@charite.de

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Charité Mitte and Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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PERATECS Group

¶Membership of the PERATECS Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.
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Patient Empowerment Improved Perioperative Quality of Care in Cancer Patients Aged ≥ 65 Years – A Randomized Controlled Trial

Maren Schmidt,
Rahel Eckardt,
Kathrin Scholtz,
Bruno Neuner,
Vera von Dossow-Hanfstingl,
Jalid Sehouli,
Christian G. Stief,
Klaus-Dieter Wernecke,
Claudia D. Spies,
PERATECS Group

Published: September 17, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137824

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