The Effects of Music on Diminishing Anxiety Among Preoperative Patients

The Visual Analog Scale Allows Effective Measurement of Preoperative Anxiety and Detection of Patients’ Anesthetic Concerns

Christoph Kindler, Christoph Harms, Felix Amsler et al. · Anesthesia & Analgesia · 2000 · 636 citations

Medicine, Anesthesiology, Surgery +14

Assessing the Clinical Significance of Single Items Relative to Summated Scores

Jeff A. Sloan, Neil K. Aaronson, Joseph C. Cappelleri et al. · Mayo Clinic Proceedings · 2002 · 256 citations

Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Measurement +16

Hypnosis Reduces Preoperative Anxiety in Adult Patients

Haleh Saadat, Jacqueline Drummond-Lewis, Inna Maranets et al. · Anesthesia & Analgesia · 2006 · 127 citations

Medicine, Anesthesiology, Surgery +10

Pain and Anxiety during Interventional Radiologic Procedures: Effect of Patients' State Anxiety at Baseline and Modulation by Nonpharmacologic Analgesia Adjuncts

Christine J. Schupp, Kevin S. Berbaum, Michael L. Berbaum et al. · Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology · 2005 · 112 citations

Medicine, Anesthesiology, Radiology +16

Minimising preoperative anxiety with music for day surgery patients – a randomised clinical trial

Cheng‐Hua Ni, Wei‐Her Tsai, Liang‐Ming Lee et al. · Journal of Clinical Nursing · 2011 · 75 citations · Full text

Nursing, Perioperative Medicine, Surgery +16