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Postoperative recovery and outcomes – what are we measuring and for whom?
Author(s) -
Bowyer A. J.,
Royse C. F.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/anae.13312
Subject(s) - medicine , emotive , cognition , process (computing) , dimension (graph theory) , focus (optics) , psychiatry , computer science , philosophy , mathematics , epistemology , pure mathematics , operating system , physics , optics
Summary Recovery is an abstract quantity the definition of which varies according to the pre‐dilection of individual institutions, clinicians or patients. While traditionally focused on immediate postoperative restitution of function and readiness for discharge, recovery assessment has progressively expanded its focus to include other clinically relevant time periods, each of which is influenced by specific factors. Assessment tools have progressed from assessing one dimension of recovery, such as physiological variables, to multidimensional assessment of physical, nociceptive, emotive, functional and cognitive performance. They should be validated ideally for repeat measures and should provide real‐time recovery data, as recovery can be viewed as a continuous process.