2015-06
To tell or not: parental thoughts on disclosure of urologic surgery to their child
Literature pertaining to surgical disclosure to the pediatric patient is lacking. We hypothesized parents would find it difficult to disclose urologic surgery to a child.
Parents of patients <5 years old undergoing urologic surgery were contacted for telephone survey. Parents were asked about future plans of surgical disclosure, comfort with disclosure, and any support received.
98 parents consented to study participation. 87% of surgeries were on ...
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