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Tools for the Assessment of the Recovery Process following Discharge from Day Surgery: A Literature Review

2015; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 25; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/175045891502501102

2515-7949

Margareta Warrén Stomberg, Eva Saxborn, Sofia Gambreus, Metha Brattwall, Jan Jakobsson,

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

This literature review provides an overview of ten studies which assessed the patient's general recovery after discharge from hospital following elective surgery and anaesthesia. Ten multidimensional tools were identified and these included six common domain assessments: pain, physiological function, activities of daily living (ADL), emotions, nausea/vomiting and nutrition/ elimination. Most of the tools assessed the recovery process by using patient-subjective reported outcomes on visual analogue (VAS) or pre-graded scales.