[The successfully treated patients - are they the satisfied ones?]. / Patientenzufriedenheit - Sind die erfolgreich therapierten Patienten die zufriedenen Patienten?

The current scientific opinion on the success of a therapy is that patients having undergone a successful therapy are satisfied. However, in reality, it is possible that patients with poor living conditions are satisfied (well-being paradox) whereas patients treated successfully are not (dissonance). The higher the psychological distress, the more rare is the assumption that successful therapy is an equivalent of satisfaction. Satisfaction depends more on fulfillment of patient expectations and involvement of the physicians.

[Subsyndromal delirium -- experience in psychiatry -- expectations for postoperative management]. / Subsyndromales Delir - Erfahrungen aus der Psychiatrie - Erwartungen für die postoperative Versorgung.

The phenomenon of delirium is well known since over 100 years. The anesthesiology has recognized that early detection and therapy results in significant improvement of postoperative clinical state of health of the patients. In the following article it will be discussed that it could be profitable to make a further step: threatening the subsyndromal delirium. Because there are only few experiences in anesthesiology, this thesis will be substantiated by datas from psychiatry.