Virtual reality in presurgical patient education: A scoping review and recommended trial design guidelines

Bekelis et al. at Dartmouth Neurosurgery found statistically increased pre-operative satisfaction and reduced pre-operative anxiety scores after the use of VR to simulate the perioperative experience as compared to a control group.7 Noben et al. at Maxima Medical Center focused on the day-of-surgery experience in cesarean sections. [...]when reporting results, to bolster consistency investigators should provide technical details including software and hardware utilized. Better educating patients in the presurgical setting leads to improved patient comprehension, which in turn can lead to reduced anxiety, better management of expectations, and higher patient satisfaction, and ultimately improves delivery of care.Funding This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.Declaration of competing interest The authors report no conflicts of interest.Acknowledgements We thank Amber Stout, Medical Librarian at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, for assistance with the literature search.Appendix A Supplementary data The following are the Supplementary data to this article: