POPPY Study
“
Patient reported
Outcomes, postoperative
Pain and
Pain relief in
daY case surgery”
– POPPY Study
WINNER OF RAFT - 4 PITCH, NIAA Research Grant Application Submitted
Lead Dr Will Hare
The next RAFT 4 study aims to establish the nature of patient recovery following day surgery in both the short
-
term and long
-term phases which hasn’t been undertaken before in the UK. We are particularly interested in
the incidence of persistent postsurgical pain and postoperative opioid use in this population alongside the
factors that may alter the risk of these problems occurring. This aligns with the James Lind Alliance priority
setting partnership which identified ‘What can we do to stop patients developing chronic pain after surgery?’
as one of the top ten questions.
We plan to use a novel SMS prompted online patient feedback system to gather our data. This has already
been successfully used for postoperative feedback in multiple UK centres. If we can demonstrate its efficacy as
part of our embedded pilot study, then this will have great implications for future trainee led network research projects