Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Patient‐reported outcomes, postoperative pain and pain relief after day‐case surgery ( POPPY ): acute pain and recovery during the first 7 days
Authors' conclusion
These findings suggest that by postoperative day 7, recovery from day-case surgery is incomplete for many patients.
Study context
- Population
- Patients undergoing day-case surgery in the UK7,331 responded on day 7
- Participants
- 7,839 patients
- Outcome
- Acute recovery over the first 7 postoperative days
- Follow-up
- First 7 postoperative days
Methodological detailsnational
- National
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Poor pain outcome (pain severity >4/10) in the first 7 days
1458 of 4348
33.5%
Pain impaired function at day 7
1279 of 4854
26.3%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Variables associated with poor pain outcome
- Associated with poor pain outcome: treatment for anxiety or depression, baseline chronic pain, frailty, greater surgical magnitude, head and neck surgery
- Increasing age associated with reduced probability of poor pain outcome
Variables associated with poor functional outcome
- Associated with poor functional outcome: surgical magnitude, orthopaedic surgery, chronic pain, frailty
- Opioid naivety associated with reduced OR of both poor pain and poor functional outcomes
Original publication
Patient‐reported outcomes, postoperative pain and pain relief after day‐case surgery ( POPPY ): acute pain and recovery during the first 7 days. Anaesthesia. Published 2 September 2026. doi:10.
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