Preoperative Education

As discussed in the preceding parts of the essay, preoperative education does help improve patients’ post-operative pain outcomes comparing with people who do not receive education (Kearney et al., 2011). As for DVT and SSI, many research indicated the shortened length of hospitalisation and improved patient outcomes rather than emphasize the specific statistically significant outcomes on reduced DVT or SSI (Chua et al., 2017; Jones et al., 2011). However, the improved patient outcomes can be interpreted as reduced incidence of post-operative complications, therefore, preoperative education has positive impacts on preventing complications to some degree but still need more consistent evidence.
Nevertheless, compared with directly reduce the risk of complications due to preoperative education, many studies showed that preoperative education help patients have more knowledge so that they have higher autonomy and compliance to manage those complications better (Lynn, 2015; Oshodi, 2007). These differences may generate from different information covered in preoperative education, for example, patients who
Moreover, the methods of delivering preoperative