Background Widely used for acute pain management, the clinical benefit from perioperative
use of gabapentinoids is uncertain. The aim of this systematic review was to assess the …

Background Excessive opioid prescribing after surgery has contributed to the current opioid
crisis; however, the value of prescribing opioids at surgical discharge remains uncertain. We …

Background Functional capacity is an important component of risk assessment for major
surgery. Doctors' clinical subjective assessment of patients' functional capacity has uncertain …

Poorly controlled postoperative pain is associated with increased morbidity, negatively
affects quality of life and functional recovery, and is a risk factor for persistent pain and …

Background Minimally invasive thoracic surgery causes significant postoperative pain.
Erector spinae plane (ESP) block and serratus anterior plane (SAP) block promise effective …

Background There are very few patient-centred global outcome measures of recovery in the
days or weeks after surgery. This meta-analysis evaluated the psychometric properties and …

Background Patient-centred outcomes are increasingly used in perioperative clinical trials.
The Standardised Endpoints in Perioperative Medicine (StEP) initiative aims to define which …

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 …

Background Outcome selection underpins clinical trial interpretation. Inconsistency in
outcome selection and reporting hinders comparison of different trials' results, reducing the …

Abstract Editor's Perspective What We Already Know about This Topic Pectoralis-II block is a
potential alternative to paravertebral blocks to provide regional analgesia for breast cancer …