Prospective paired crossover evaluation of potential impact of investigator gender on perceived pain intensity early after acute or scheduled surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Postoperative pain is common but often difficult to assess, and there are many potential confounders. Over the last decades, the gender of investigator as well as participant has been found to influence pain perception in both preclinical and clinical studies. However, to our knowledge this has not been studied in various postoperative patients. Objectives of this study were to test the hypotheses that pain intensity levels early after acute or scheduled in- or out-hospital surgery are lower when evaluated by a female investigator, and higher when reported by a female patient.

Methods

In this prospective observational paired crossover study, two investigators of opposite genders independently obtained individually reported pain intensity levels with a visual analo

SUBMITTER: Engskov AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10127324 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature