Journal article
Survey of the National Drug Shortage Effect on Anesthesia and Patient Safety: A Patient Perspective
Anesthesia and analgesia, Vol.121(2), pp.502-506
08/2015
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000798
PMID: 26197376
Abstract
There are few data on patients' desire to be informed of drug shortages before elective surgery. We surveyed patients who had previously undergone laparoscopic cholecystectomy for their opinions. Nine hundred forty-nine Mayo Clinic patients were invited to participate in the survey. The postal survey posed a hypothetical surgical scenario and requested answers regarding the desire to be informed and to postpone scheduled surgery because of neostigmine shortage. Comparison was made with Canadian patients from a hospital in Ontario. Most of the 256 respondents wanted "to be told by the anesthesia doctor about the neostigmine shortage" if there were "slight differences" in side effects between the drug combinations (P < 0.0001). The percentage of patients wanting to know was 76.2% (95% confidence interval, 70.5%-81.3%). Secondary analyses tested the validity and reliability of the survey. With each increase in the differences in substituted drug's side effects, there was a progressive increase in the patients' desire for information (P < 0.0001; 73.2%, 76.2%, and 95.7% of 246, 256, and 253 respondents, respectively) and preference for delaying surgery (P< 0.0001; 33.6%, 39.4%, and 80.9% of 238, 246, and 241 respondents, respectively). There was no association with respondents' sex (P = 0.19), age (P = 0.76), educational level (P = 0.39), or country (United States versus Canada [n = 58]; P = 0.87). The majority (>50%) of surveyed patients want to be informed of drug shortages that might affect their care.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Survey of the National Drug Shortage Effect on Anesthesia and Patient Safety: A Patient Perspective
- Creators
- Ivan Kai-Hsiang Hsia - Windsor Regional HospitalFranklin Dexter - University of Iowa, AnesthesiaIlana Logvinov - Mayo Clinic in FloridaNikola Tankosic - Mayo Clinic HospitalHarish Ramakrishna - Mayo Clinic HospitalSorin J Brull - Mayo Clinic in Florida
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Anesthesia and analgesia, Vol.121(2), pp.502-506
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000798
- PMID
- 26197376
- ISSN
- 0003-2999
- eISSN
- 1526-7598
- Grant note
- Funding: Research Electronic Data Capture utilization supported by the Center for Clinical and Translational Science grant (UL1 TR000135), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Additional support from the Department of Surgical Services, Windsor Regional Hospital Ouellette Campus, Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona; Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida; and Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2015
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Anesthesia
- Record Identifier
- 9983806253802771
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