Postoperative Visual Analog Pain Scores and Overall Anesthesia Patient Satisfaction

Patient satisfaction is evolving into an important measure of high-quality health care and anesthesia care is no exception. Pain management is an integral part of anesthesia care and must be assessed to determine patient satisfaction; therefore, it is a measure for quality of care. One issue is how patients reflect individual experiences into their overall anesthesia experience. There is a need to identify how postoperative pain scores correlate with anesthesia patient satisfaction survey results. Postoperative pain is not a dominant measure in determining anesthesia patient satisfaction.

Source: Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America - September 20, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Tony Burch, Scott J. Seipel, Nina Coyle, Keri H. Ortega, Ozzie DeJesus Source Type: research