Patient satisfaction and positive patient outcomes in ambulatory anesthesia

Systematic review of questionnaires measuring patient satisfaction in ambulatory anesthesia.

BACKGROUND Patient satisfaction has become an important component of quality improvement in ambulatory anesthesia services. However, it is difficult to measure due to its subjective and complex psychological construct. Psychometric methodology has been successfully used to evaluate this outcome. The authors conducted a systematic review to evaluate questionnaires to measure patient satisfaction...

Ambulatory Patient Screening for General Anesthesia.

An evaluation of anesthesia patient satisfaction instruments.

The purpose of this study was to systematically review the instruments used to obtain anesthesia-specific patient satisfaction data and to determine the degree to which each instrument controlled for measurement error bias, such as poor survey design. By using an assessment and evaluation tool developed for the present study that held proven internal reliability and construct validity, we analy...

evaluation of patient satisfaction with anesthesia care

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 patie...

Adverse outcomes in ambulatory anesthesia.

O VER the past two decades surgical patient care has undergone a major change. While in the past, most of the surgical procedures required inpatient admissions, now most of the performed operations, an estimated 65% of operations in North America, are completed in ambulatory settings. The improvement of anesthetic and surgical techniques, which resulted in an extremely good safety record of amb...