Abstract

Comprehensiveevaluationofpatientsatisfaction after anesthesia services is an important parameter for quality control andcontinuous improvement in-hospital care.[1]Hence study was initiated with objective to assess patient satisfaction and associated factors on perioperative anaesthesia service. Methodology: An observational cross sectional study conducted at GVP hospital, Visakhapatnam. Allpatientsadmittedfor surgeriesunderregionaland generalanesthesiainour hospital. The sample size was 80, calculated based on previous study[2]. After Institutional Ethics Committee approval, written informed consent was takenfrom all patients included in the study. A pretested semi-structured questionnaire wasused for data collection. The questionnaire used to assess satisfaction was adapted fromthe Leiden Perioperative Care Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire. Data was entered in MS Excel and analyzed by using SPSS software version 21. Categorical data was represented as percentages and chi-square test was be used to know statistical significance. P value <0.05 was considered statistically significant.

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