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Objective: Although there are guidelines and advanced pain management techniques, quality of postoperative pain management can not still be measured with a standard method considering safety issues. Many factors like nausea, vomiting, functional disability and immobility have an effect on the achivement of postoperative pain therapy. QUIPS is a survey which takes all these factors into account. In this study we tried to evaluate the quality of postoperative pain management by using QUIPS. Method: This study was conducted on 400 volunteers who were planned for surgical operation between 07.2014 - 01.2015 at Maltepe University Medical Faculty Hospital. QUIPS was applied to these patients the day after the surgery Results: Fifty-four percent (n:216) of the patients were women and 46% (n:184) of them were men. These patients were asked about their pain level in questions 3 and 4. The highest scores for pain were recorded in neurosurgery and orthopedics. In the fifth question patients were asked to answer whether they had immobility problems due to pain and the highest scores were in neurosurgery patients (p