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 Several rating scales have been developed to measure quality of recovery after
surgery and anaesthesia, but the most extensively used is the QoR-40, a 40-item …

Abstract Background: Quality of recovery (QoR) after anesthesia is an important measure of
the early postoperative health status of patients. The aim was to develop a short-form …

Abstract Background The QoR-15 is a patient-reported outcome questionnaire that
measures the quality of recovery after surgery and anaesthesia. We aimed to perform a …

Background Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is considered the gold standard
for male lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia …

To date, postoperative quality of recovery lacks a universally accepted definition and
assessment technique. Current quality of recovery assessment tools vary in their …

Background Good postoperative recovery is increasingly recognized as an important
outcome after surgery. The authors created a new Post-operative Quality Recovery Scale …

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 …

Patient satisfaction is an important measure of the quality of health care and is used as an
outcome measure in interventional and quality improvement studies. Previous studies have …

Background Emergence agitation is common after nasal surgery. We investigated the effects
of intraoperative dexmedetomidine infusion on emergence agitation and quality of recovery …