The Effect of Pain on Health-Related Quality of Life in the Immediate Postoperative Period
- 1 October 2003
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Anesthesia & Analgesia
- Vol. 97 (4) , 1078-1085
- https://doi.org/10.1213/01.ane.0000081722.09164.d5
Abstract
The hypothesis of this study was to determine if the severity of postoperative pain would affect patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQL) in the immediate postoperative period (within 2 wk of surgery). We designed this study as a prospective, nonrandomized observational trial in a tertiary acKeywords
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