The future of recovery – Integrated, digitalised and in real time

Abstract

Traditional perioperative risk prediction recovery identifies patient populations at risk of suboptimal recovery but not individual patients in whom this actually occurs and in whom timely intervention is beneficial. Patient-focused recovery emphasises a return to a semblance of normality and an ability to perform activities previously undertaken. A patient's sense of self-efficacy and engagement in their own care positively influences functional improvement and emotive recovery. The future of recovery assessment is that which is individualised, digitalised, integrated and in real time. Real-time recovery (RTR) assessment is the contemporaneous collection, analysis and reporting of data that..