Prevalence and incidence of longer term pain in survivors of polytrauma

• Published in: Surgery Vol. 150; no. 5; pp. 985 - 995
• Main Authors: Gross, Thomas, MD, Amsler, Felix, MSc
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Mosby, Inc 01.11.2011; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Chronic Pain - diagnosis; Chronic Pain - epidemiology; Epidemiology; Female; Follow-Up Studies; General aspects; Health Status; Humans; Incidence; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Multiple trauma; Multiple Trauma - epidemiology; Pain Measurement; Prevalence; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Quality of Life; Surgery; Survivors - statistics & numerical data; Traumas. Diseases due to physical agents; Wounds, Nonpenetrating - epidemiology; Young Adult; Medicine; Pain; Prevalence; Treatment; Survivor; Surgery; Trauma; Epidemiology; Long term; Multiple injury; Incidence

Background Little is known about the longer term status of pain or the factors associated with pain-related outcome in patients after polytrauma. The current study evaluated the prevalence and severity of pain at least 2 years after injury compared with preinjury status using several pain scores in...