Symptom severity trajectories and distresses in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic lung resection from surgery to the first post-discharge clinic visit.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to characterize patients' symptom severity trajectories and distresses from video-assisted thoracoscopic lung resection to the first post-discharge clinic visit. Seventy-five patients undergoing thoracoscopic lung resection for diagnosed or suspected pulmonary malignancy prospectively recorded daily symptom severity on a 0-10 numeric scale using the MD Anderson Symptom Inventory until the first post-discharge clinic visit. The causes of postoperative distresses were surveyed, and symptom severity trajectories were analyzed using joinpoint regression. A rebound was defined as a statistically significant positive slope after a statistically significant negative slope. Symptom recovery was defined as symptom severity of ≤3 in two contiguous measurements. The accuracy of pain

SUBMITTER: Saito T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9946218 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature