Four-Week Pain Profile and Patient Non-Adherence to Pharmacological Pain Therapy After Day Surgery.

Background: Nowadays, complicated and painful surgical procedures are encouraged to be carried out in an ambulatory setting.

Objectives: The current study aimed to assess 4-week postoperative pain profiles of 4 painful ambulatory surgical procedures. We analyzed the prevalence of and reasons for non-adherence and partial adherence of patients to a predefined treatment schedule after the ambulant surgery.