Follow-up periods
VTE
Participants will be followed up at 7-days and 90-days postsurgical procedure. Follow-up data will be collected via telephone or online questionnaire (the link to the questionnaire will be sent via email or SMS).At 7 days postsurgical procedure, data on self-reported VTE outcome will be collected and the EQ-5D will be administered. For those participants who were enrolled in the intervention cluster only (ie, sites which were randomised to issue GCS to short-stay surgical patients), information on AEs related to GCS will also be collected.At 90-days postsurgical procedure, data on self-reported VTE outcome will be collected, together with the EQ-5D and information on the healthcare resource use.