Patient Survey as a Tool to Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement 2024

One goal of the investigators of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine CCM/CVK, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is a continuous improvement in the quality of care to the patients. One focus is the freezing preoperatively during surgery, and on the follow-up study to assess the perceived waiting times in the anesthesiology outpatient clinic. The project aims to quality assurance and quality improvement of the CharitéCentrum for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine 007, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin .

The primary objective of the survey is to assess the entire perioperative care with particular focus on the development of perceived waiting times in the anesthesiology outpatient clinic, re-evaluation of the preoperative freezing the preoperative thirst, pain, nausea and vomiting after surgery (PONV prophylaxis). The survey will be repeated in a three-year interval (approximately 1000 - 2000 patients per survey) to monitor and improve the quality of the CharitéCentrum for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine 007, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin from the patient point of view. In order to achieve a meaningful data collection, a response rate of 50 percent should be achieved.