Open AccessAssessing Rapidity of Recovery After Cancer Surgeries in a Single Overnight Short-Stay Setting
Author(s) -
Melissa Assel,
Vincent P. Laudone,
Rebecca S. Twersky,
Andrew Vickers,
Brett A. Simon
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0000000000003992
Subject(s) - medicine , ambulatory , surgery , prostatectomy , mastectomy , cohort , anesthesia , cancer , breast cancer , prostate cancer
In the short-stay surgery setting, where patients remain in hospital for a single overnight at most, it is unclear as to whether postoperative length of stay is a good surrogate for assessing rapidity of recovery. We hypothesized that length of stay would be a function of time of surgery and would be a poorer marker of recovery than time of discharge.