Patient satisfaction as an outcome is gaining more attention
after the Affordable Care Act of 2010, which focuses on increasing
transparency and accountability in health care. The new law
also promotes objective measurements of patient perspectives of
health care so that both patients and payers can compare
hospitals and make informed decisions. Patients' perception of
pain control and the efforts by health care providers to help in
their pain control are both important in determining patient satisfaction
[4]. Anesthesiologists play an important role in perioperative
pain management and can influence patient satisfaction
scores. Although a multimodal approach [3,5] is recommended,
opioids remain the mainstay of acute pain management.