Research Article: Correlation Between Pain Intensity and Quality of Recovery After Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Lung Cancer Resection
Introduction:
Improving postoperative recovery is a major goal for perioperative clinicians. Postoperative recovery has been traditionally evaluated based on physiological parameters, postoperative morbidity, length of hospital stay, and mortality. However, these indicators are not similar to those indicating postoperative recovery from the patients’ perspective. Further, with the advances in perioperative management, recognizing the substantial effects of new treatments with these conventional indicators is becoming difficult.
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