Xiaofei Cao

Between-assessor and temporal heterogeneity in routinely recorded postoperative symptom fields: a five-year retrospective observational study of 121,755 nursing assessments

Abstract Background Routine postoperative patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) follow-up records may be reused for audit or benchmarking, but recorded symptom rates reflect patient, clinical, temporal and documentation factors. We quantified between-assessor and temporal heterogene...