Aim and Background:
The assessment of patient satisfaction with anesthesia, the balance
between expectations and perception of what was received, is an essential component of
continuous quality improvement in anesthesiology. In our center there have been few studies
conducted in the anesthesia field, which have assessed patient’s satisfaction. In this prospective
study we have evaluated patient satisfaction with anesthesia in patients 24 h after surgery.
Methods and Materials:
This study was performed in Sina hospital in Tehran, Iran on patients
aged more than 18 yr. They all underwent elective surgical procedures with anesthesia. One of
the anesthesia staff members took the interview one day after surgery and asked the patients
questions for the structured questionnaire designed to measure patient satisfaction with
anesthesia. At the same time, some specific questions were also asked to find factors that could
be associated with such satisfaction.
Findings:
The data was gathered from 500 patients (mean age: 41± 16 yr and males: 65.2%).
The overall satisfaction (complete and relative) was high (98.8%) although 6 patients (1.2%)
were dissatisfied with their anesthesia care. After analysis of several factors related to the
patients’surgery and anesthesia, a strong relation was found between spinal anesthesia and
satisfaction (p=0.003).There was not any relation between age, gender, education, duration of
anesthesia and kind of surgery with patients’ satisfaction.
Conclusions:
Our study found that patient satisfaction with anesthesia was very high in our
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