Patient and Procedural Determinants of Postoperative Pain Trajectories.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The primary goal of this study was to evaluate patterns in acute postoperative pain in a mixed surgical patient cohort with the hypothesis that there would be heterogeneity in these patterns.

Methods

This study included 360 patients from a mixed surgical cohort whose pain was measured across postoperative days 1 through 7. Pain was characterized using the Brief Pain Inventory. Primary analysis used group-based trajectory modeling to estimate trajectories/patterns of postoperative pain. Secondary analysis examined associations between sociodemographic, clinical, and behavioral patient factors and pain trajectories.

Results

Five distinct postoperative pain trajectories were identified. Many patients (167 of 360, 46%) were in the moderate-to-high pain group, f

SUBMITTER: Vasilopoulos T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8726009 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature