Quality of anesthetist communication with surgical patients in the perioperative setting: a survey at an academic tertiary referral hospital in Ethiopia

CONCLUSIONS: There was good PPAC in our hospital from patients' perspective. However, there should be improvements in checking the degree of understanding of the delivered information, encouraging to question, disclosing next steps and involving in decision-making. Patients who underwent emergency surgery, had no previous anesthetic exposure, had clinically significant level of preoperative anxiety, had no history of previous hospital admission, and had moderate-severe preoperative pain were found to have poor PPAC.PMID:37208731 | DOI:10.1186/s13037-023-00361-0

Source: Patient Safety in Surgery - May 19, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Yophtahe Woldegerima Berhe Temesgen Agegnehu Mulualem Endeshaw Nurhusen Riskey Getasew Kassaw Source Type: research