Researchers developed QoR-compact, a five-item daily survey designed to improve compliance in remote patient monitoring by reducing the burden of the standard 15-question Quality of Recovery (QoR-15) instrument. The study was motivated by low adherence rates, where only 55% of post-surgical patients completed the full survey for more than half of a 30-day period. To address this, the team exhaustively evaluated all 3,003 possible five-question subsets to identify the subset that best predicts near-term postoperative recovery severity. The selected QoR-compact items cover physical and psychological axes, specifically addressing rest, comfort, well-being, pain, and anxiety. Backtesting demonstrated that QoR-compact achieves a mean AUC-ROC of 0.968, which is statistically comparable to the baseline performance of one-third of the full instrument's items. The model tracks readmission events with fidelity similar to the complete form, establishing its validity as a predictive tool. While the authors note that external validation on larger cohorts is required before clinical use, the results support prospective studies on whether this lighter input improves daily completion consistency.