Patient perception of the role of anesthesiologists: a perspective from the Caribbean

Subramanian, Hariharan; Merritt-Charles, L; Chen, Deryk

doi:10.1016/j.jclinane.2006.03.004

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“…Only 7.7% of the respondents said that they would like to choose their own anesthesiologist, because they thought they had the right to do so 9 Moreover, in agreement with our findings, the educational level of the respondent was significantly associated with this response.…”

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Patient perceptions about anesthesia and anesthesiologists before and after surgical procedures

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CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Anesthesiologist-patient relationships are established preoperatively and intraoperatively. These are opportunities for providing correct information about anesthesia/anesthesiologists, thereby improving outcomes. The aim here was to evaluate patients' perceptions about anesthesiologists before anesthesia and to identify whether the anesthetic care would change such perceptions. DESIGN AND SETTING: Prospective cross-sectional study using data obtained in [2007][2008], at a tertiary university hospital. METHODS: 518 patients aged 16 years or over were interviewed before and after anesthesia exposure. A questionnaire was used to determine patient characteristics and perceptions of anesthesia/anesthesiologists. RESULTS:The patients were 16-89 years of age and 59.8% had attended elementary school. 79.1% said that anesthesiologists were specialized physicians. Anesthesiologists' roles were associated with loss of consciousness (35.5% pre-anesthesia; 43.5% post-anesthesia), pain relief (29.7% pre-anesthesia, 31.7% post-anesthesia), vital sign monitoring (17.6% pre-anesthesia, 35% post-anesthesia; P < 0.05); and drug administration (10.8% pre-anesthesia, 43.9% post-anesthesia; P < 0.05). The level of confidence in the physician was rated high (82.2% and 89.8% pre-and post-anesthesia, respectively; P < 0.05) or intermediate (5.8% and 6.6% pre-and post-anesthesia, respectively; P < 0.05). The care provided by anesthesiologists was classified as: elucidating (52.8%), encouraging (52.6%), neutral (10.2%) and careless (0.8%). CONCLUSION: Patients' perceptions of anesthesiologists' roles were fairly good, but improvements in this relationship still need to be pursued, to achieve better outcomes. Anesthetic care was important in providing information, confidence and reassurance among patients, regarding their perceptions. Anesthesiologists should not miss opportunities to provide excellent professional care for patients, thereby improving anesthesia outcomes and their image. responderam que o anestesiologista é um médico especializado. O papel do anestesiologista foi associado à perda de consciência (35,5% pré-anestesia, 43,5% pós-anestesia), alívio de dor (29,7% pré-anestesia, 31,7% pós-anestesia), monitorização dos sinais vitais (17,6% pré-anestesia, 35% pós-anestesia; P < 0,05), e administração de medicamentos (10,8% pré-anestesia, 43,9% pós-anestesia; P < 0,05). O nível de confiança no médico foi considerado alto (82,2% e 89,8% no pré e pós-anestesia, respectivamente, P < 0,05) ou intermediário (5,8% e 6,6% no pré e pós-anestesia, respectivamente, P < 0,05). A assistência prestada pelo anestesiologista foi classificada como: elucidativa (52,8%), encorajadora (52,6%), indiferente (10,2%) e displicente (0,8%). CONCLUSÃO: A percepção sobre o papel do anestesiologista foi satisfatória, mas as melhorias nessa relação ainda são necessárias para se conseguirem melhores resultados. O atendimento anestésico foi importante para a informação, confiança e segurança do paciente sobre essa percepção. O an...

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“…2 In the present study, only 40% of respondents knew that the anesthesiologist was a doctor compared with 59% in the Carabian, 65% in the UK and, 88.7% in the USA. 1,10,11 This is a disappointing finding of our study. However, there are many possible reasons for this observation.…”

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Knowledge and attitudes of patients about the role of anesthesiologists in a military hospital

Erden

Tütüncü²

2012

J Clin Exp Invest

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“…In the present study high percent of participants 82.67% knew that anesthesiologist is a doctor, this in agreement with a study by Acosta-Martínez et al (2016)and Ahsan-ul-Haq et al (2004)where the percents in their studieswere 80% and 82% respectively, also in many studies by lee et al (2014),Prasad and Suresh(2014) and Bhandary et al (2016) the percentswere74.8%, 75 %and 60% respectively, however our results still higher. In other studies (Swinhoe et al, 1994;Khan et al, 1999),Pandyaet al, 2016;Irwin et al, 1998), the percent was around 30-35%, whileitraised in Caribbean and Singapore studies toreach 59% and 65.8% respectively of patientsknew that anesthesiologist is a doctor [Hariharan et al, 2006;Chew et al, 1998), another study (Hariharan, 2009)recorded least percent, only 5.5 % of patients knew that anesthesiologist is a qualified doctor.This low percent reflects very poor knowledge about anesthesiologists who really are.This may return to many reasons such as; patients choose surgeons not anesthesiologist because some patients think that anesthesiologist is surgeon's assistant, another reason is the short duration often spent between patient and anesthesiologist (Hariharan, 2009).In replay to the question about safety of anesthesia, 70.30% of patients realized that anesthesia was safe; this result is close to one study (Garry, 2001)where 76 % of individuals felt anesthesia as safe, while in another study (Ahsan-Ul-Haq et al, 2004)only 40 thought anesthesia was safe. Although our result about safety of anesthesia seems to be good, much awareness still needed to patients, this will decrease their fears before surgery especially with the presence of developed anesthesia techniques.…”

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confidence: 92%

A Survey on Public Awareness About the Role of Anesthesiologists.

Alqefari¹,

alyami²,

Almowald³

et al. 2017

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Patient perception of the role of anesthesiologists: a perspective from the Caribbean

Cited by 57 publications

References 24 publications

Patient perceptions about anesthesia and anesthesiologists before and after surgical procedures

Patient perceptions about anesthesia and anesthesiologists before and after surgical procedures

Knowledge and attitudes of patients about the role of anesthesiologists in a military hospital

A Survey on Public Awareness About the Role of Anesthesiologists.

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