Importance of patient and family satisfaction in perioperative care

As healthcare systems increasingly shift focus toward providing high-quality and high-value care to patients, there has been a simultaneous growth in assessing the patient's experience through patient-reported outcomes. Along with well-known patient reported outcomes such as health-related quality of life and current health state, patient satisfaction can be a valuable assessment of quality. Patient and family satisfaction measures not only affect a patient ’s clinical course and influence overall patient compliance, but are increasingly used to gauge physician performance and guide reimbursement.

Source: Seminars in Pediatric Surgery - February 7, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Kristen A. Calabro, Mehul V. Raval, David H. Rothstein Source Type: research