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Patient satisfaction is a subjective measure that reflects how well patients’ health care experiences align with their expectations and needs. It is an essential indicator of the quality of health care services, particularly in the perioperative setting, where patients undergo significant physical and emotional changes []. Patient satisfaction is a vital goal in health care, acting as both an indicator of care quality and a catalyst for improvement. By assessing satisfaction, providers can pinpoint areas needing enhancement, which leads to better patient outcomes and adherence to treatment protocols []. High patient satisfaction is correlated with improved quality of perioperative care and a reduction in patient readmissions, mortality rates, and hospital stays []. Perioperative patient satisfaction is a critical outcome that enhances recovery and trust. Perioperative care integrates management across the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases. This multidisciplinary approach faces challenges, including patient anxiety, pain control, and communication issues. Addressing these challenges through holistic strategies, which commonly prioritize communication, pain management, and emotional support, can enhance perioperative patient satisfaction []. Effective perioperative care requires a multidisciplinary approach involving collaboration among surgeons, anesthetists, nurses, and other health care professionals. This teamwork is essential for addressing the diverse needs of patients, particularly those with greater surgical risk []. Engaging patients in their care, providing them with clear information, and addressing their concerns can significantly improve their satisfaction and overall experience. Patient satisfaction with perioperative services is significantly influenced by different factors. Therefore, understanding these factors can help health care providers enhance the quality of perioperative care and improve patient experiences. The determining factors affecting patient satisfaction with perioperative services can be health care provider–related or patient-related. Health care provider–related factors include professional and interpersonal communication skills, perioperative care, patient involvement in care, staff skills and behaviors, multidisciplinary patient care approaches, staff attentiveness and support, access to care, infrastructure, and basic facilities. Patient-related factors include sociodemographic characteristics, such as age, baseline health status, overall experience, and stage of disease; perception of a relationship of trust with health care providers; and experience of intraoperative awareness, postoperative care, nausea and vomiting, postoperative complications, and feeling involved in decisions about their care [,,-].