Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Recovery trajectories after major abdominal surgery: A retrospective pooled cohort study
Authors' conclusion
The incidence of overall recovery at postoperative week 4-8 was 42%. Patients with incomplete overall recovery had longer lengths of stay.
Study context
- Population
- Adults undergoing elective major abdominal surgery, 2018–2024, three tertiary-level hospitals
- Participants
- 653 adults
- Outcome
- Overall recovery (recovery in all PostopQRS domains: return to or improvement of preoperative baseline)
- Follow-up
- Postoperative weeks 4-8
Methodological detailsmulticentre (three tertiary-level hospitals)
- Multicentre (three tertiary-level hospitals)
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Overall recovery · postoperative week 4-8
Incidence of overall recovery
42%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
LOS by overall recovery at weeks 4-8
P < 0.001
Domain-level recovery · postoperative weeks 4-8
- Nociception
- 63%
- Emotion
- 81%
- Activities of daily living (ADLs)
- 82%
- Cognition
- 83%
Original publication
Recovery trajectories after major abdominal surgery: A retrospective pooled cohort study. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. Published 19 January 2025. doi:10.
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