Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Patient‐reported outcomes, postoperative pain and pain relief after day‐case surgery ( POPPY ): baseline data from day surgery practice in the UK
Authors' conclusion
In the UK, over a third of patients presenting for day-case surgery are in pain, which is mostly chronic in duration. One in four have access to opioid medications and a little over one in 10 are using opioids daily.
Study context
- Population
- Adults undergoing day-case surgery in the UKeligible after exclusions
- Participants
- 7,839 adults
- Outcome
- Baseline characteristics of day-case surgery patients: pre-existing pain, daily opioid use, treatment for depression/anxiety, and unplanned admission
- Follow-up
- Baseline
Methodological detailsbaseline data, UK-wide, multicentre
- Baseline data
- UK-wide
- Multicentre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Unplanned admission following surgery (most common reason for exclusion)
- 1131/9618 (11.8%)
- Pain at the site of proposed surgery
- 3060/7839 (39%)
- Chronic pain at the site of proposed surgery
- 2387/7839 (30.5%)
- Opioids taken at least daily
- 885/7839 (11.3%)
- Receiving treatment for depression
- 1109/7839 (14.1%)
- Receiving treatment for anxiety
- 1039/7839 (13.3%)
- Anxiety or depression rated moderate or worse
- 1002/7839 (12.8%)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Unplanned admission after surgery (most common reason for exclusion)
- Unplanned admission
- 1131/9618 (11.8%)
- More likely with increasing surgical magnitude, frailty and higher ASA physical status
- Some common operations had admission rates of > 50%
Original publication
Patient‐reported outcomes, postoperative pain and pain relief after day‐case surgery ( POPPY ): baseline data from day surgery practice in the UK. Anaesthesia. Published 7 January 2026. doi:10.
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