title: Patient acceptance of diagnostic laparoscopy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess patient acceptance of diagnostic conventional laparoscopy and minilaparoscopy under sedoanalgesia.
  
  
  METHODS
  120 consecutive patients undergoing diagnostic laparoscopy were enrolled prospectively in this study. Within the first week after diagnostic laparoscopy the patients were asked to answer a total of eight questions with regard to the acceptance of the procedure.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The inconvenience of laparoscopy was assessed with a mean of 1.6 on a scale from 0 to 10 (0 = no inconvenience, 10 = very unpleasant). The discomfort in the two days following laparoscopy were graded with a mean of 2.1 on a scale from 0 to 10 (0 = no inconvenience, 10 = very unpleasant). There was no difference between conventional laparoscopy and minilaparoscopy. Only 10% of the patients described laparoscopy more inconvenient in comparison to diagnostic gastroscopy, whereas 29% of the patients assessed diagnostic gastroscopy more inconvenient.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Diagnostic laparoscopy under sedoanalgesia is a very well tolerated procedure. There is no difference between conventional laparoscopy and minilaparoscopy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine C, Klinikum Ludwigshafen, Academic Hospital of the University of Mainz, Germany. weickeru@klilu.de
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Weickert
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bühl
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jakobs
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Eickhoff
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Löffler
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Riemann
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires