Trajectories of Pain After Cardiac Surgery: Implications for Measurement, Reporting, and Individualized Treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Postoperative pain after cardiac surgery is a significant problem, but studies often report pain value as an average of the study cohort, obscuring clinically meaningful differences in pain trajectories. We sought to characterize heterogeneity in postoperative pain experiences.

Methods

We enrolled patients undergoing a cardiac surgery at a tertiary care center between January 2019 and February 2020. Participants received an electronically-delivered questionnaire every 3 days for 30 days to assess incision site pain level. We evaluated the variability in pain trajectories over 30 days by the cohort-level mean with confidence band and latent classes identified by group-based trajectory model. Group-based trajectory model estimated the probability of belonging to a s

SUBMITTER: Mori M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8366534 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature