Confidence interval

Physics

Cohort study

Pain catastrophizing

Pacu

Incidence (geometry)

Optics

Chronic pain

Physical therapy

Odds ratio

Internal medicine

Surgery

Medicine

British Journal of Anaesthesia

We conducted a cohort study of adult patients presenting for orthopaedic trauma surgery at a statewide trauma centre, with the aims of determining (i) the incidence and risk factors for severe acute pain in the PACU, and (ii) the incidence and risk factors for persistent post-surgical pain at 3 months.

Severe acute pain and persistent post-surgical pain in orthopaedic trauma patients: a cohort study