The effect of Mozart music on patient satisfaction during caesarean delivery: a randomised controlled trial

Abstract

There is significant interest in the medical community in the use of music as a therapeutic mo dality to improve a wide variety of clinical outcomes [1,2]. Patient satisfaction is often found to improve with music use in randomised trials, and a recent meta-analysis confirms the finding that music may have a strong effect on patient satisfaction [3]. In the US, the use of a cost-effective intervention to improve patient satisfaction is of interest to hospital administrations because a portion of Medicare (the US federal health insurance) reim bursements is based on the results of patient satisfaction surveys under the Hospital Valuebased Purchasing programme of the Affordable Care Act (a US law that increases health insurance coverage) [4,5].