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Abstract
Traditional surgical outcome measures include minor and major complications, hospital length of stay and sometimes longer-term survival. Each of these is important but there needs to be greater emphasis on patient-reported outcome measures. Global measures of a patient's quality of recovery, avoidance of postoperative morbidities, early hospital discharge to home (without re-admission) and longer term disability-free survival can better define postoperative recovery. A patient's recovery pathway can be mapped through the immediate days or weeks after surgery with documentation of morbidity using the postoperative morbidity survey and/or a quality of recovery score, days alive and at home up to 30 days after surgery and then longer term disability-free survival using the WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 scale. These can be used to define quality of recovery after surgery.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | e143-e150 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Anaesthesia |
Volume | 75 |
Issue number | S1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2020 |
Keywords
- anaesthesia
- disability-free survival
- patient-centred outcomes
- peri-operative medicine
- surgery
Projects
- 1 Active
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Improving the Impact of Perioperative Clinical Trials
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Australia)
1/01/18 → 31/12/22
Project: Research