Acute pain after breast surgery and reconstruction: A two-institution study of surgical factors influencing short-term pain outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Acute postoperative pain following surgery is known to be associated with chronic pain development and lower quality of life. We sought to analyze the relationship between differing breast cancer excisional procedures, reconstruction, and short-term pain outcomes. Women undergoing breast cancer excisional procedures with or without reconstruction at two systems: an academic hospital (AH) and Veterans Health Administration (VHA) were included. Average pain scores at the time of discharge and at 30-day follow-up were analyzed across demographic and clinical characteristics. Linear mixed effects modeling was used to assess the relationship between patient/clinical characteristics and interval pain scores with a random slope to account for differences in baseline pain. Our study included 1402

SUBMITTER: Azad AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7749807 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature