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Prevalence of postoperative pain after hospital discharge: systematic review and meta-analysis.
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Nonopioid Versus Opioid Management of Post-operative Pain Following Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Educational Needs Analysis for Postoperative Early Ambulation Among Surgical-Ward Nurses and Patients: Using Borich Needs Assessment and Locus for Focus Models.Journal of clinical nursing · 2026Article
- Surgeon Perceptions and Experiences with Postoperative Acute Pain Management: A Mixed-Methods Study.Pain and therapy · 2026Article
- Patient-reported outcomes, postoperative pain and pain relief after day-case surgery (POPPY): short-term peri-operative analgesic use.Anaesthesia · 2026Observational
- C-C motif chemokine ligand 12 (CCL12) is a critical chemokine driving postoperative pain.Pain · 2026Article
- Impacts of opioid use, postoperative pain, pain interference, and side effects on postoperative psychological distress: a retrospective study of the PAIN OUT registry in seven Asian regions.BioPsychoSocial medicine · 2026Article
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- Prediction Models for Acute and Chronic Postoperative Pain in Patients with Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of pain research · 2026Review
- Factors influencing optimal postoperative pain management: a systematic scoping review.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- The perception of pre and postoperative pain management among recently operated patients in Saudi Arabia.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Suzetrigine: a novel non-opioid for acute postoperative pasin relief.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Article
- Personalized Multimodal and Opioid-Sparing Analgesia for Postoperative Pain Management: Enhancing Recovery and Addressing the Post-Discharge Gap.Journal of pain research · 2026Review
- Brush-like Polymer Surface on Silk Fibroin Films for Controlled Release of Local Anesthetics.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2025Article
- The Effect of Cannabidiol on Nociceptive Behaviour and the Endocannabinoid System in an Incisional Wound Model.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Assessment and management of postoperative pain after hospital discharge is very challenging. We conducted a systematic review to synthesize available evidence on the prevalence of moderate-to-severe postoperative pain within the first 1 to 14 days after hospital discharge. The previously published protocol for this review was registered in PROSPERO. MEDLINE and EMBASE databases were searched until November 2020. We included observational postsurgical pain studies in the posthospital discharge setting. The primary outcome for the review was the proportion of study participants with moderate-to-severe postoperative pain (eg, pain score of 4 or more on a 10-point Numerical Rating Scale) within the first 1 to 14 days after hospital discharge. This review included 27 eligible studies involving a total of 22,108 participants having undergone a wide variety of surgical procedures. The 27 studies included ambulatory surgeries (n = 19), inpatient surgeries (n = 1), both ambulatory and inpatient surgeries (n = 4), or was not specified (n = 3). Meta-analyses of combinable studies provided estimates of pooled prevalence rates of moderate-to-severe postoperative pain ranging from 31% 1 day after discharge to 58% 1 to 2 weeks after discharge. These findings suggest that moderate-to-severe postoperative pain is a common occurrence after hospital discharge and highlight the importance of future efforts to more effectively evaluate, prevent, and treat postsurgical pain in patients discharged from the hospital.
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