Background Maximising patient comfort during and after surgery is a primary concern of
anaesthetists and other perioperative clinicians, but objective measures of what constitutes …

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

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 …

Objectives We aimed to identify whether quality of recovery after anaesthesia and surgery
measured in multiple domains affects patient satisfaction. Design Sub-group analysis of …

Background Measuring patient satisfaction after anaesthesia care is complex. The existing
patient satisfaction questionnaires are limited and omit aspects of patient satisfaction, such …

The aim of postoperative pain relief is to provide subjective comfort in addition to inhibiting
traumainduced nodceptive impulses in order to blunt autonomic and somatic reflex …

Postoperative pain has been poorly managed for decades. Recent surveys from USA and
Europe do not show any major improvement. Persistent postoperative pain is common after …

Effective peri‐operative pain management is a prerequisite for optimal recovery after
surgery. Despite published evidence‐based guidelines from several professional groups …

Patients' involvement in all decision processes is becoming increasingly important in
modern healthcare. Patient satisfaction is a sensitive measure of a well‐functioning health …

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 …