The Develop a Validated Si-2-AQ and Use it to Evaluate Patients Postoperatively

Anesthesia service is the medical specialty that focuses on peri-operative medicine and the administration of anesthetics. It expresses traditionally as the conditions of no pain perception during surgical procedure. This includes three broad categories: 1) General Anesthesia is a medically induced state of unconsciousness with loss of protective reflexes; 2) Sedation is a state of irritability or agitation reduction to facilitate a medical or diagnostic procedure; and 3) Regional Anesthesia is a technique to abolish either or both motor and sensory sensitivity in a specific part of the body.

Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok is a tertiary, general hospital with more than 2,200 beds. Annually, the Department of Anesthesiology has responsibilities to take care of more than 50,000 patients peri-operatively. Currently, it plays a part in many surgical departments: Traumatic surgery (TRAU); Orthopedics surgery (ORT); Eye surgery (EYE); Ear, Nose and Throat surgery (ENT); Plastics surgery (PLA); Cardio-thoracic surgery (CVT); Neurosurgery (NEU); General surgery (GEN), Urological surgery (URO); Head and Neck surgery (H&N); Pediatric surgery (PED); Obstetrics surgery (OBG); Gynecological surgery (GYN); Electro-convulsive therapy (PSY); Radiological services (RAD); Endoscopic center (SCOP); Intensive Care Unit (ICU); Acute Pain service (APS); Pain Clinic (PC); and Pre-Anesthesia Assessment Center (SiPAC).

According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs; human's pleasure is classified as physiological, safety, belonging, esteem and self-actualization. Likewise, patients' satisfaction seems to cover all these aspects; since participants crave for an excellent healthcare services. As a result, their contentment become a crucial factor to determine the quality of care particularly in Anesthesia procedure. This includes many processes in peri-Anesthesia management such as patient safety in operating theater, pain controlling and mutually convenient inter-relationship, etc. To solve these procedural running by means of patients' desires, a quality survey seems to be a promising tool that right on the target.

Since defining and measuring quality of healthcare service is an inevitable challenge for all institutes in medical fields, many organizations try to work out intensively. Currently, there are many leading quality assessment tools in healthcare services, namely Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and System (HCAHPS), Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire (PSQ), Service Quality Questionnaire (SERVQUAL), Quality of Recover after anesthesia 40 (QoR-40), Post-operative Quality of Recovery Questionnaire and Developing and Testing Questionnaire. These tests have been already verified for its validity and reliability.

HCAHPS a 33-item survey in three dimensions, comprises nurse and doctor communication, medical communication, responsiveness of hospital staff, pain management, discharge information, care transition 17 items; cleanliness and quietness of hospital environment 2 items; as well as overall rating of hospital and willingness to recommend hospital 2 items.