Identification of preoperative predictors for acute postsurgical pain and for pain at three months after surgery: a prospective observational study.

ABSTRACT: Identifying patients at risk is the start of adequate perioperative pain management. We aimed to identify preoperative predictors for acute postsurgical pain (APSP) and for pain at 3 months after surgery to develop prediction models. In a prospective observational study, we collected preoperative predictors and the movement-evoked numerical rating scale (NRS-MEP) of postoperative pain at day 1, 2, 3, 7, week 1, 6 and 3 months after surgery from patients with a range of surgical procedures. Regression analyses of data of 2258 surgical in- and outpatients showed that independent predictors for APSP using the mean NRS-MEP over the first three days after surgery were hospital admittance, female sex, higher preoperative pain, younger age, pain catastrophizing, anxiety, higher score on functiona

SUBMITTER: van Boekel RLM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8361098 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature