Clinical trial NCT04734119: Patient Satisfaction With Perioperative Anesthetic Care
Official title: Patient Satisfaction With Perioperative Anesthetic Care: Is Continuity of Care Crucial?
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Anesthesia
Keywords: anesthesia
patient satisfaction
continuity of care
Lead sponsor: Meir Medical Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-02-02
Enrollment: 100
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Patients scheduled for elective surgery under general anesthesia between 12.2018 and 03.2019

Brief summary: The doctor-patient relationship, medical competence and patient expectations influence patient satisfaction with anesthesia. Preoperatively all patients are routinely assessed by an anesthesiologist. However, in many centers, the anesthesiologist who performs the preoperative evaluation will not necessarily be the anesthesiologist who provides the intraoperative service. This study evaluated the effect of this practice on patient satisfaction, level of confidence and anxiety among adult patients undergoing elective surgery.

Detailed description: Background: The doctor-patient relationship, medical competence and patient expectations influence patient satisfaction with anesthesia. Preoperatively all patients are routinely assessed by an anesthesiologist. However, in many centers, the anesthesiologist who performs the preoperative evaluation will not necessarily be the anesthesiologist who provides the intraoperative service. This study evaluated the effect of this practice on patient satisfaction, level of confidence and anxiety among adult patients undergoing elective surgery.

Methods: 100 patients scheduled for elective surgery under general anesthesia were randomly divided into 2 equal groups: In Group A patients were evaluated and anesthetized by the same anesthesiologist. In Group B the preoperative assessment and actual anesthesia was performed by two different anesthesiologists. On the first postoperative day all patients completed a questionnaire designed to evaluate their sense of preoperative security (confidence) and their overall satisfaction with the anesthetic experience.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients scheduled for elective surgery under general anesthesia
* Period- 12.2018-03.2019
* ASA score 1 to3
* Hebrew is the patient mother tongue
* The patient was pre-operatively evaluated by an anesthesiologist at least one day before surgery
* Duration of surgery is more than 1 hour
* The anesthesiologist has more than 2 years experience at work

Exclusion Criteria:

* The patient suffers from severe cognitive decline or severe psychiatric illness
* The patient is unable to answer the questionnaire by himself/herself
* The patient received pre-operative sedation

Primary outcomes:
measure: Level of patient satisfaction
timeFrame: Post operative day 1
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Locations:
city: Kfar Saba
country: Israel
facility: Meir medical center Kfar Saba
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