Postoperative Pain and Quality of Recovery

Abstract

Pain is a complex issue, and Quality Recovery 40（QoR-40）, a quality measure of multidimensional scale recovery, has been used to assess postoperative pain in recent years. There is also a Japanese version, which is characterized by being able to conveniently measure the outcome seen from the patient side of the perioperative period（comfort, pain, feeling, physical function, patient support and emotion）like QoL scale. QoR-40 is used worldwide to measure the quality of recovery after anesthesia surgery. There is evidence of its reliability and relevance, and it could be used more frequently in evaluating postoperative pain in the future.