ABSTRACT
The aim of the current study was to determine what the patients at King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital [KAUH] want to know before their anesthesia and surgery and to establish some order of priority on these information. A questionnaire was developed from 10 pieces of information, each developed into a statement. A short introduction about the demographics was asked at the beginning of each questionnaire. The patients showed a huge desire to know about all of the information concerning their procedure. However, the three statements with the highest percentage of importance to know were meeting their surgeons before operations, knowing all the common possible complications of their operations and meeting the anesthesiologists before the operations, in that order