Patients’ perspectives on recovery from day surgery

................................................................................................................. 1 LIST OF PAPERS ........................................................................................................ 3 ABBREVIATIONS ...................................................................................................... 5 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 7 BACKGROUND.......................................................................................................... 8 The day surgery context ...................................................................................... 8 The day surgery patient .................................................................................... 10 Postoperative recovery ...................................................................................... 12 Self-care in day surgery ............................................................................... 13 Health-related quality of life ....................................................................... 14 Assessment of postoperative recovery ........................................................... 14 Rationale of this thesis ...................................................................................... 16 AIMS ........................................................................................................................... 17 METHODS ................................................................................................................. 18 Design .................................................................................................................. 18 Participants .......................................................................................................... 20 Analysis of non-participants ....................................................................... 22 Data collection .................................................................................................... 23 The Post-discharge Surgical Recovery scale ............................................. 23 The Quality of Recovery-23 scale ............................................................... 24 The Postanesthesia Recovery Score for Ambulatory Patients ............... 25 The EuroQol-5D ............................................................................................ 25 The interviews ............................................................................................... 26 Procedures ........................................................................................................... 26 Data analysis ....................................................................................................... 27 Statistical analyses ........................................................................................ 27