Patients' awareness of postoperative adhesions: results from a multi-centre study and online survey.

Purpose: To analyse and to compare how female patients are informed about adhesions and their related problems by surgeons preoperatively.

Methods: Over 8 weeks 105 patients (Germany) and 82 (UK) patients admitted for laparoscopic or open abdominopelvic surgery were interviewed preoperatively in a multi-centre study in Germany and the UK. 212 responses to an online survey were also analysed.