Disclosures: Gregory Powell, DO: No financial relationships or conflicts of interest

Background and/or Objectives: As part of another research project, inpatient rehabilitation patients completed surveys with questions assessing their perception of pain management during their stay, as well as their overall satisfaction with the hospital stay. Initial data from these surveys did not appear to show a true trend in favor of correlating pain with hospital satisfaction, and a subsequent analysis for statistical significance was conducted.

Design: Approximately 42 total surveys were given to inpatient rehabilitation patients as part of a study that was originally designed to assess patient satisfaction with timing of vital sign checks. The survey also contained questions that asked the patient to assess their perception of their satisfaction with their pain control, and asked the patient to rate their satisfaction with their overall hospitalization. Both questions used a Likert scale of 0-10 with 0 being highly dissatisfied and 10 being highly satisfied.

Setting: Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital

Participants: Patients, nursing staff, resident physician, data processing personnel

Interventions: Not applicable

Main Outcome Measures: Chi square statistical analysis performed to measure significance of data.

Results: Data did not show any statistically significant correlation of pain satisfaction scores and hospital satisfaction scores.

Conclusions: Patient pain perception scores do not seem to be a good predictor of a patients’ overall satisfaction with their hospitalization. Patients in the rehabilitation setting seem to take more factors into consideration when rating their care than just pain, whether that may be vital sign check times, lab draw times, television noise, etc. Further research efforts could look into whether this remains a persistent trend, and whether recent opioid perceptions in the public domain are affecting patient perception of pain management.

Level of Evidence: Level III

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