Assessing Change in Patient-reported Quality of Life After Elective Surgery: an Observational Comparison Study

"All enrolled patients complete a survey of baseline health during their visit to the preoperative assessment clinic and then complete a follow-up survey approximately 30 days after surgery.~The intervention for this study is to compare self-reported quality of life (How would you rate your quality of life now? (better/same/worse)) to the quantitative change in their VR-12 quality of life scores between the baseline survey and 30-day follow-up survey."