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Table 4 Postoperative recovery over time and between different day surgical groups, based on a two-way repeated measure ANOVA (n=404)

From: Postoperative recovery and its association with health-related quality of life among day surgery patients

Scales

Day 1 mean (SD)

Day 7 mean (SD)

Day 14 mean (SD)

Sourcea

p-value

S-PSR total

58.1 (17.4)

71.1 (18.0)

78.0 (16.6)

Time

<0.001

 Orthopaedic patients

57.0 (16.7)

68.8 (17.5)

75.6 (16.6)

Group

0.001

 General surgery patients

57.8 (18.3)

72.4 (18.6)

80.1 (16.9)

Time x Group

0.162

 Gynaecological patients

64.3 (17.6)

79.7 (16.0)

84.8 (13.2)

  

QoR-23 total

97.3 (12.4)

103.2 (10.8)

106.6 (9.7)

Time

<0.001

 Orthopaedic patients

96.3 (12.4)

101.9 (11.1)

105.3 (10.5)

Group

0.006

 General surgery patients

97.4 (12.6)

104.9 (9.0)

108.4 (8.0)

Time x Group

0.108

 Gynaecological patients

102.0 (10.6)

105.9 (12.5)

108.9 (8.2)

  
  1. a Time – main effect within subjects over time, Group – main effect between orthopaedic, general surgery and gynaecological day surgery patients, Time x Group – interaction effect for time and group.
  2. S-PSR (possible score range: min 10 – max 100).
  3. QoR-23 (possible score range: min 23 – max 115).