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A significant proportion of patients experience incomplete recovery and pain-related functional impairment up to 7 days after day-case surgery, with poor outcomes strongly associated with baseline factors such as chronic pain, frailty, and psychological comorbidities. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Characterize acute recovery trajectories, postoperative pain, and patient-reported functional outcomes across the first seven days following day-case surgery.

September 5, 2026AnaesthesiaOpen Access

Patient‐reported outcomes, postoperative pain and pain relief after day‐case surgery ( POPPY ): acute pain and recovery during the first 7 days

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MEMatthew EversonRoyal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust MBMartha Belete ABAdam Brayne

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Prospective cohort study reveals persistent pain and functional impairment following day-case surgery, indicating incomplete acute recovery and the need for targeted perioperative follow-up.

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Characterize acute recovery trajectories, postoperative pain, and patient-reported functional outcomes across the first seven days following day-case surgery.
Prospective, national observational study (POPPY) conducted across the UK enrolling N = 7839 day-case surgery patients.
Assessed baseline characteristics and followed participants on postoperative days 1, 3, and 7 to record pain severity, functional impairment, and Quality of Recovery-15 scores.
Defined poor pain outcome as a pain severity score > 4/10 and poor functional outcome as any functional impairment driven by pain on days 1, 3, and 7.
Among 7331 respondents at day 7, pain impaired functional recovery in 1279/4854 (26.3%) patients, with 1458/4348 (33.5%) experiencing a poor pain outcome over the 7-day period.
Poor pain outcomes were associated with anxiety or depression treatment, chronic pain, frailty, surgical magnitude, and head and neck procedures, whereas older age decreased risk.
Poor functional outcomes correlated with surgical magnitude, orthopaedic procedures, chronic pain, and frailty; opioid naivety was associated with reduced odds of both poor pain and poor functional outcomes.

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Everson et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9bd4726b95aff0620ec1f9 https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.70360

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Prospective cohort study reveals persistent pain and functional impairment following day-case surgery, indicating incomplete acute recovery and the need for targeted perioperative follow-up.

Patient‐reported outcomes, postoperative pain and pain relief after day‐case surgery ( POPPY ): acute pain and recovery during the first 7 days

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Patient‐reported outcomes, postoperative pain and pain relief after day‐case surgery ( POPPY ): acute pain and recovery during the first 7 days

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