Survey of Satisfaction among Users of Electronic Patient Anesthesia Record in Neurological Institute Bangkok Thailand

Abstract

Anesthesia medical records are important in the recording process of anesthesia to patients during surgery; it provides legal evidence to protect communication between medical staffs. The anesthesia medical records patient details continuously before surgery, during surgery, and during postoperative period. All of these procedures had been manually managed. However, there has been an increase use of an electronic patient anesthesia record machine. This type of machine has been designed and developed since 1970. Each care institute has applied the machine to measure the accuracy and the completeness of the patient’s record. Moreover, the Department of Anesthesiology Neurological Institute has implemented the use of electronic record of anesthesia. The aim of this study was to assess level of user’s satisfaction to electronic patient anesthesia record in this hospital. This study is a cross-sectional survey and questionnaires were used to collect data for a population consisting 182 respondents. The statistical relationship was analyzed using Chi - Square Test and Mann -Whitney test. Results showed most of the respondents in recorders group had high level of satisfaction 50% and 45% felt moderate satisfaction and when focused on readers group found 84% of this group had moderate satisfaction of electronic patient anesthesia record. The association between socio-demographic characteristics and users satisfaction of electronic patient anesthesia record were associated significantly with level of computer knowledge and familiarity with electronic machine (p = 0.002 and 0.001 respectively) in reader respondents. Finally, this study was done to evaluate new technologies used in Neurological Institute, Bangkok. This information will be based on in-depth study to understand the efficiency, effectiveness and costs of the anesthesia in the future.