Research Summaries

Key Highlights Six-month satisfaction data were available for 166 adults undergoing knee surgery.

A systematic review of 155 studies found COVID-19 vaccines reduced severe outcomes across age and risk groups without new safety signals.

Interviews with 15 older surgical patients identified psychological and social influences on acute pain, informing a biopsychosocial model.

Interviews explore how older surgical patients perceive their role in postoperative pain management and their preferred level of engagement.

A retrospective study evaluated whether preoperative distress predicts pain clinic referrals after mastectomy with immediate reconstruction.

A randomized controlled trial found lower pain, preoperative anxiety, and rescue analgesic use with biofeedback-guided breathing in laparoscopic cholecystectomy patients.

Researchers examined whether pain during the first postoperative week predicts quality-of-life recovery 90 days after lumbar fusion.

A retrospective multicohort study linked hospitalization with infections to increased psychiatric and neurologic diagnoses, particularly in adults.

A comparative deep learning study found highly correlated facial attention maps, although the human-trained model showed better pain/non-pain separation.

A secondary trial analysis found 21% higher odds of greater delirium severity per unit increase in day 1 pain after elective noncardiac surgery.