Improving pediatric patient engagement, outcomes, and satisfaction via an interactive perioperative teaching platform.

Abstract

Patient satisfaction is an important quality endpoint in perioperative care.1 For pediatric patients, previous work has described improving family education and reducing anxiety using visual information.2 In this prospective randomized study, we assessed whether adding an interactive, web-based perioperative teaching platform (IPTP) to conventional pre-operative education would improve caregiver satisfaction and comprehension of the perioperative process, while reducing anxiety.