Open AccessValidated tool for quality assessment of anesthesia services by cardiac surgeons
Author(s) -
Rahul Guhabiswas,
Saibal Roy Chowdhury,
Pradeep Narayan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of cardiac anaesthesia/annals of cardiac anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 0974-5181
pISSN - 0971-9784
DOI - 10.4103/aca.aca_108_20
Subject(s) - medicine , likert scale , content validity , internal consistency , cardiac surgery , scale (ratio) , family medicine , patient satisfaction , psychometrics , nursing , surgery , clinical psychology , statistics , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics
The role of the cardiac anaesthesiologists extends beyond mere patient wellbeing to diagnostic input and active participation in decision making during cardiac surgery. The quality of service provision should therefore be judged not only by patient satisfaction but also by the satisfaction of cardiac surgeons. Unfortunately, quantification of cardiac surgeon satisfaction remains a challenge due to the absence of a reliable and validated tool. We therefore attempted to develop a robust, validated, pilot psychometric questionnaire, to measure satisfaction of cardiac surgeons' to cardiac anesthesia services.