Patient-reported harm following cancellation of planned surgery at a Danish university hospital: a cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To estimate the prevalence and severity of patient-reported physical and non-physical harm following surgery cancellation.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: A large Danish university hospital.

The effect of intraoperative methadone on postoperative opioid requirements in children undergoing orchiopexy: A randomized clinical trial.

Background: Children undergoing outpatient surgery are at risk of inadequate postoperative pain control. Methadone has a long duration of action and an intraoperative dose may provide stable analgesia throughout the postoperative period. Intraoperative methadone has been shown to improve pain control in adolescents but its use for postoperative pain in pediatric patients undergoing outpatient surgery has not been studied before.

Development and internal validation of a clinical risk tool to predict chronic postsurgical pain in adults: a prospective multicentre cohort study.

Chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) is a highly prevalent condition. To improve CPSP management, we aimed to develop and internally validate generalizable point-of-care risk tools for preoperative and postoperative prediction of CPSP 3 months after surgery. A multicentre, prospective, cohort study in adult patients undergoing elective surgery was conducted between May 2021 and May 2023.

Prognostic clinical prediction models for acute post-surgical pain in adults: a systematic review.

Background: Acute post-surgical pain is managed inadequately in many patients undergoing surgery. Several prognostic risk prediction models have been developed to identify patients at high risk of developing moderate to severe acute post-surgical pain. The aim of this systematic review was to describe and evaluate the methodological conduct of these prediction models.