Factors Affecting Patient Satisfaction With Their Anesthesiologist: An Analysis of 51,676 Surveys From a Large Multihospital Practice.

Background: An increasing focus of health care quality is the assessment of patient-reported outcomes, including satisfaction. Because anesthesia care occurs in the context of perioperative surgical care, direct associations between anesthetic management and patient experience may be difficult to identify. We analyzed anesthesia-specific patient satisfaction survey data from a large private practice group to identify patient, procedure, and anesthetic-specific predictors of patient satisfaction with their anesthesiologist, measured via responses to a validated patient satisfaction survey instrument.

Impact of Medical Scribes on Physician and Patient Satisfaction in Primary Care.

Background: Use of electronic health records (EHRs) is associated with physician stress and burnout. While emergency departments and subspecialists have used scribes to address this issue, little is known about the impact of scribes in academic primary care.

Objective: Assess the impact of a scribe on physician and patient satisfaction at an academic general internal medicine (GIM) clinic.