As we approach an aging population, understanding patients to provide holistic care becomes quintessential. Traditional postoperative outcomes such as mortalities, morbidities, and length of stay are being re-evaluated and broadened to incorporate patient-reported quality of life and functional outcome measures. This allows for a greater understanding of patients’ overall well-being, acknowledging patients’ perception of returning to normalcy. Conventional surgical audits via departmental mortality and morbidity meetings or retrospective cohort studies tend to be biased and may not necessarily conclude with a learning outcome or action plan for future improvements. Hence, the use of CUSUM methodology as an adjunct to conscientiously track patients’ postoperative outcomes allows for timely interventions and analysis to be conducted.