Postoperative Complications
Conditions
Brief summary
The aim of this study is to test the Korean version of QoR-15 for its validity and clinical acceptability and feasibility.
Detailed description
Quality of recovery (QoR) after anesthesia is an important measure of the early postoperative health status of patients. The QoR-40 is a widely-used questionnaire for postoperative patients and the short-form version of it (QoR-15) was developed in 2013. The validation of QoR-15 has been reported in the version of English, Portuguese, Danish, Chinese and Swedish. However, the study to validate the Korean version of QoR-15 has not been demonstrated. Patients undergoing surgery and general anesthesia are asked by the investigators to complete the QoR-15 questionnaire and Korean 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) a day before surgery. They are then asked to repeat the QoR-15 questionnaire 24 h postoperatively and also rate their overall postoperative pain score using 11-point numeric rating scale (NRS).
Interventions
OTHERQoR-15
The QoR-15 is the questionnaire to provide an evaluation of the postoperative quality of recovery. Patients undergoing surgery and general anesthesia are asked by the investigators to complete the QoR-15 questionnaire before and 24h after the surgery.
Sponsors
Seoul National University Hospital
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patients scheduled to undergo elective general surgery, thoracic surgery and gynecological surgery under general anesthesia * Age between 18 and 80 years * Willingness and ability to sign an informed consent document * Ability to understand the contents of questionnaires
Exclusion criteria
* Age under 18 or over 80. * Do not understand our study * Medical or psychological disease that can affect the treatment response
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Convergent Validity of the QoR (Quality of Recovery)-15 | 24 hours after the surgery | The QoR-15 (0-150) is compared with the global QoR visual analog scale (VAS) (0-100), 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) and interitem correlations are measured. |
| Construct Validity of the QoR (Quality of Recovery)-15 | 24 hours after the surgery | To investigate if there is an correlation between the QoR-15 (0-150) and age (yr), gender (male/female), American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status (I-IV), type of surgery (minor/major), postoperative complication (Clavien Dindo grade II or high, %) and 11-point numeric rating scale (NRS) pain score. |
| Discriminant Validity of the QoR (Quality of Recovery)-15 | 24 hours after the surgery | To investigate if there is differences in the QoR-15 (0-150) and postoperative complications (Clavien Dindo grade II or high, %) between the high QoR score group and low QoR score group |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability of the QoR (Quality of Recovery)-15 | 24 hours after the surgery | Compare the two QoR-15 results measured at 60 minutes intervals using an intraclass correlation coefficient, and calculate the Cronbach alpha to investigate the internal consistency. |
| Response success rate of the QoR-15 | A day before and 24 hours after the surgery | Defined as success if the patient has answered all items. |
| Correlation of postoperative outcomes with QoR-15 | 24 hours after the surgery | To investigate if there is an correlation between the QoR-15 (0-150) at POD1 and length of hospital stay (day), postoperative complications (Clavien Dindo grade II or high, %), C-reactive protein (mg/L) at POD1, Granulocyte/lymphocyte ratio at POD1, readmission rate within 1 month |
Countries
South Korea
Outcome results
None listed