Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Routine anaesthesia ward-based patient visits in surgery: 1-year outcomes of the TRACE randomized clinical trial
Authors' conclusion
Routine postoperative anaesthesia ward visits of patients did not improve clinical, functional, and QoL outcomes. A substantial proportion of patients still experienced health-related limitations in daily life 1 year after surgery.
Study context
- Population
- Adults undergoing elective non-cardiac surgery at risk for adverse postoperative outcome, nine hospitals in the Netherlandsfollowed up
- Participants
- 5,473 adults
- Comparison
- Routine postoperative anaesthesia ward visits vs control
- Primary endpoint
- Longer-term clinical outcomes (mortality, hospital readmission, reoperation), functional recovery (global surgical recovery (GSR) index, ADL, functional recovery index (FRI)) and QoL (EQ-5D-5L)
- Follow-up
- 1 year
Methodological detailsmulticentre, 1-year follow-up
- Multicentre
- 1-year follow-up
Primary result
As reported in the abstract
1-year mortality
Further findings
Hospital readmission · 1 year
Reoperation · 1 year
Functional recovery and quality of life (QoL), all patients · 1 year
- Patients not able to fully perform activities of daily living (ADL)
- 30%
- Patients reporting a problem in EQ-5D-5L mobility, usual activities, pain/discomfort
- 40%-51%
- Functional recovery (FR) and QoL recovered to preoperative levels
Original publication
Routine anaesthesia ward-based patient visits in surgery: 1-year outcomes of the TRACE randomized clinical trial. Br J Surg. Published 12 March 2025. doi:10.
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