Fig. 2

Differences between actual and recommended recovery times after laparoscopic hysterectomy. The vertical red line presents the convalescence guideline. The boxplots present the 25th percentile, median (thick vertical line) and 75th percentile of the differences between actual recovery times and the recommended recovery times. White boxes present activities that were being performed by more than 50% of the patients before or at the recommended recovery time. Green boxes present activities that were being performed by 25% to 50% of the patients faster than the recommended recovery times. Red boxed present activities that were being performed by less than 25% of the patients faster than the recommended recovery times.^a guidelines were not revised due to algorithm taking other surgical types into account (lifting 5 kg, cycling). N, number of patients that provided data on the activity; IQR, interquartile range