Parental satisfaction with pediatric day case surgery.
OBJECTIVE
Children make excellent candidates for day case surgery. Satisfaction is an important measure of the outcome. The aim of this study was to establish the degree of parental satisfaction with day-case surgery for their children.


METHODS
Parents of one hundred children were questioned. They were asked to answer questions on their level of satisfaction in several areas; communication with doctors (surgeon and anesthesiologist), physical conditions, staff's care, patients' problems and 2 open ended questions.


RESULTS
Parents were most satisfied with nursing care and most dissatisfied with physical conditions. Ninetyseven per-cent of parents stated that, if given a choice they would opt for day case surgery for their child again.


CONCLUSIONS
There is a high rate of satisfaction with day case surgery, however, considerable effort is needed to prepare better physical conditions, better time schedule organizations, more anesthesia outpatient clinic consultations.
Erden
I Aydin
IA
Hacettepe University, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Sihhiye Ankara, Turkey. aydinerden@yahoo.com
Pamuk
A Gulsun
AG
Ocal
Turgay
T
Aypar
Ulku
U
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires