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Day Case Surgery Linked to Significant Readmission and Chronic Pain Risks
New UK studies show 12% of day surgery patients require hospital admission and 7.2% develop chronic post-surgical pain within three months, with some procedures exceeding 50% admission rates.
- Two new UK studies found around one in eight patients undergoing day-case surgery are unexpectedly admitted, screening 9,618 patients with 7,839 eligible across 199 UK sites by the POPPY Consortium.
- NHS targets of 85% for day‑case operations motivate wider use, but researchers anticipated lower chronic pain from patient selection and enhanced recovery, the POPPY study reports.
- Researchers found baseline and postoperative pain prevalence showed chronic post‑surgical pain in 7.2% and preoperative site pain in 3,060 patients, with 885 taking opioids daily.
- The studies suggest patients with chronic post‑surgical pain face reduced quality of life and mental health, while rising surgical workload pressures NHS inpatient beds and service capacity.
- Statistical modelling associated chronic pain with early pain scores, baseline chronic pain, deprivation, ethnicity, while orthopaedic surgery had 13.4% and breast procedures 10% chronic pain; prostate and bladder surgery had 52% and 35% unplanned admissions.
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Day case surgery linked to significant readmission and chronic pain risks
Two new studies published in Anaesthesia (the journal of the Association of Anaesthetists) analyzing pain and other factors connected with day surgery in the UK show that around 1 in 8 patients having day-case surgery end up not going home and instead are admitted to hospital for various complications.
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