Adult patients (≥ 18y) who are planned to undergo an elective surgery at the University Hospital Antwerp, will be invited to participate. After signing the informed consent, they will be asked to complete questionnaires (PERISCOP3E-care; Kalkman & modified-Althaus, DN4, HADS, Stait-trait, NRS, MPIn EQ-5D-5L) that involve screening of the risk to develop persistend postoperative pain (PPSP).
The questionnaires will be completed via a survey link to the RedCap platform. Invites will be send out via the patient's e-mail.
Demograpic data and relevant medical history, surgery history, concomitant medication will be registered.
one month and three months post surgery the patients will be contacted to identicate if they developed PPSP. They will also be asked to complete quesionnaires (MPI, HADS, Stai-Trait, NRS, MPI, DN4). Based on this info, the cut-off value will be defined for the preoperative questionnaire. Analysis will be done for the sensitivity and specificity of the questionnaires.