Establishing the Patient-Acceptable Symptom State for the Numeric Rating Scale-Pain Score in a Postoperative Non-Shoulder Hand and Upper-Extremity Population.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The patient-acceptable symptom state (PASS) is a threshold score on a patient-reported outcome measurement beyond which patients consider themselves "well." Our purpose was to establish the PASS for the numeric rating scale (NRS) for pain in a 1-year postoperative hand surgery population.

Methods

This retrospective study included adult patients undergoing non-shoulder upper-extremity surgery at a single, tertiary medical center identified over a 9-month period. At 1 year after surgery, NRS pain and responses to a pain-specific anchor question were collected. Patients were dichotomized based on achieving "PASS(+)" or failing to achieve "PASS(-)" an acceptable symptom state based upon their response to a pain-specific anchor question. Threshold values of a PASS(+) stat

SUBMITTER: Daryoush JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11698640 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature