Journal article
Development and Feasibility of a Scale to Assess Postoperative Recovery
Colin F Royse, Stanton Newman, Frances Chung, Jan Stygall, Rachel E McKay, Joachim Boldt, Frederique S Servin, Ignacio Hurtado, Raafat Hannallah, Buwei Yu, David J Wilkinson
Anesthesiology | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | Published : 2010
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Abstract
Background Good postoperative recovery is increasingly recognized as an important outcome after surgery. The authors created a new Post-operative Quality Recovery Scale (PQRS) that tracks multiple domains of recovery from immediate to long-term time periods in patients of varying ages, languages, and cultures. Methods The parameters of importance to both clinicians and patients were identified. After an initial pilot study of 133 patients, the PQRS was refined. It consists of six domains (physiologic, nociceptive, emotive, activities of daily living, cognitive, and overall patient perspective). An observational study of 701 patients w..
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