Association between postoperative complications and lingering post-surgical pain: an observational cohort study

BackgroundPost-surgical pain that lingers beyond the initial few-week period of tissue healing is a major predictor of pain chronification, which leads to substantial disability and new persistent opioid analgesic use. We investigated whether postoperative medical complications increase the risk of lingering post-surgical pain.MethodsThe study population consisted of patients undergoing diverse elective surgical procedures in an academic...