Patient satisfaction in anesthesiology: a narrative review.

Bello, Corina; Nübling, Matthias; Luedi, Markus M; Heidegger, Thomas (2023). Patient satisfaction in anesthesiology: a narrative review. Current opinion in anaesthesiology, 36(4), pp. 452-459. Wolters Kluwer Health 10.1097/ACO.0000000000001270

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW

Healthcare is increasingly expanding its view in outcome discussions to integrate patient-reported outcomes such as patient satisfaction. Involving patients in the evaluation of services and the development of quality improvement strategies is paramount, especially in the service-oriented discipline of anaesthesiology.

RECENT FINDINGS

Currently, while the development of validated patient satisfaction questionnaires is well established, the use of rigorously tested scores in research and clinical practice is not standardized. Furthermore, most questionnaires are validated for specific settings, which limits our ability to draw relevant conclusions from them, especially considering the rapidly expanding scope of anaesthesia as a discipline and the addition of same-day surgery.

SUMMARY

For this manuscript, we review recent literature regarding patient satisfaction in the inpatient and ambulatory anaesthesia setting. We discuss ongoing controversies and briefly digress to consider management and leadership science regarding 'customer satisfaction'.

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