Impact of Opioid-Free Anesthesia on Postoperative Quality of Recovery in Patients After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Randomized Controlled Trial [Letter]
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Several quality of recovery (QoR) health status scales have been developed to quantify the patient's experience after anesthesia and surgery, but to date, it is unclear what constitutes the minimal clinically important difference (MCID). That is, what minimal change in score would indicate a meaningful change in a patient's health status?
Maximising patient comfort during and after surgery is a primary concern of anaesthetists and other perioperative clinicians, but objective measures of what constitutes patient comfort in the perioperative period remain poorly defined. The Standardised Endpoints in Perioperative Medicine initiative was established to derive a set of standardised endpoints for use in perioperative clinical trials.
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]Department of Anesthesiology, Sengkang General Hospital , Singapore
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Correspondence: Bai Xue, Department of Anesthesiology, Sengkang General Hospital,
110 Sengkang E Way, 44886, Singapore, Tel +65-97748254, Email bxue0919@gmail.com
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