Why the study?
Are genetic and clinical factors associated with chronic postsurgical pain after hernia repair, hysterectomy, and thoracotomy?
Are genetic and clinical factors associated with chronic postsurgical pain after hernia repair, hysterectomy, and thoracotomy?
Clinical factors should be systematically used to predict and manage chronic postsurgical pain risk while genetic predictors remain equivocal.
May guide CPSP risk management with clinical factors now; leaves open definitive genetic predictors for future validation.
Until unequivocal genetic predictors of CPSP are understood, the authors encourage systematic use of clinical factors for predicting and managing CPSP risk.
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