Korean Version of the "Quality of Recovery 15" After General Anesthesia

Validation and Clinical Implications of the Korean Version of the "Quality of Recovery 15" After General Anesthesia: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study

The aim of this study is to test the Korean version of QoR-15 for its validity and clinical acceptability and feasibility.

Quality of recovery (QoR) after anesthesia is an important measure of the early postoperative health status of patients. The QoR-40 is a widely-used questionnaire for postoperative patients and the short-form version of it (QoR-15) was developed in 2013. The validation of QoR-15 has been reported in the version of English, Portuguese, Danish, Chinese and Swedish. However, the study to validate the Korean version of QoR-15 has not been demonstrated.

Patients undergoing surgery and general anesthesia are asked by the investigators to complete the QoR-15 questionnaire and Korean 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) a day before surgery. They are then asked to repeat the QoR-15 questionnaire 24 h postoperatively and also rate their overall postoperative pain score using 11-point numeric rating scale (NRS).

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients scheduled to undergo elective general surgery, thoracic surgery and gynecological surgery under general anesthesia
• Age between 18 and 80 years
• Willingness and ability to sign an informed consent document
• Ability to understand the contents of questionnaires

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age under 18 or over 80.
• Do not understand our study
• Medical or psychological disease that can affect the treatment response