Quality of Postoperative Recovery in Children and Young People
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Quality of Postoperative Recovery in Children and Young People: The Modified QoR-15 Questionnaire
IRAS ID
171858
Contact name
Ellen Rawlinson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 1 days
Research summary
Advances in anaesthetic care mean that for most children having an anaesthetic the risk of major complications is very low. Consequently, our focus is now on the quality of the service we provide. Our hospital continuously monitors some measures of quality e.g. how often children feel sick or vomit after having an anaesthetic and how often they experience significant pain. However, although these individual measures are important, they do not tell us about children’s overall recovery experience or what parents and children think about the whole process. There is currently no mechanism to do this in our population.
In adults a 15-item questionnaire called the QoR-15 (quality of recovery-15 questions) has been shown to provide an accurate and reliable measure of how well patients recover after having surgery. We would like to see whether this measurement is equally valid in children. We have trialed the QoR-15 in small numbers of children and made some minor changes to the wording and scoring to make it easier to understand and more relevant. For example, we have changed references to work in the original questionnaire to a question about school/ college. We call this modified version the PaedQoR-15.
In this study we will include children aged between 10 and 18 undergoing a wide variety of surgery. We will ask them to complete the PaedQoR-15 both before and after surgery. We will also ask one parent/ guardian to complete the questionnaire on behalf of their child. We will analyse our results to see if PaedQoR-15 accurately and reliably measures the quality of recovery after surgery. If the PaedQoR-15 performs well we, and other institutions, will be able to use this to monitor and improve the quality of anaesthetic services we provide to the children in our care.
REC name
Wales REC 6
REC reference
15/WA/0171
Date of REC Opinion
1 Jun 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion