Prediction of Postoperative Pain

Survey of chronic pain in Europe: Prevalence, impact on daily life, and treatment

2005 • 5,105 citations

The Revised CONSORT Statement for Reporting Randomized Trials: Explanation and Elaboration

2001 • 3,719 citations

Persistent postsurgical pain: risk factors and prevention

2006 • 3,700 citations

Evaluation of the Quality of Prognosis Studies in Systematic Reviews

2006 • 1,355 citations

Chronic Pain as an Outcome of Surgery

2000 • 1,343 citations

Opioid-induced Hyperalgesia

2006 • 1,137 citations

Epidemiology and Reporting Characteristics of Systematic Reviews

2007 • 853 citations

Prediction of chronic post-operative pain: Pre-operative DNIC testing identifies patients at risk

2008 • 730 citations

Preoperative prediction of severe postoperative pain

2003 • 597 citations

Ranawat Award Paper: Predicting Total Knee Replacement Pain

2003 • 572 citations

An Interdisciplinary Expert Consensus Statement on Assessment of Pain in Older Persons

2006 • 554 citations

Risk Factors for Chronic Pain Following Breast Cancer Surgery: A Prospective Study

2006 • 527 citations

Quantitative sensory testing

2003 • 506 citations

Experimental and Clinical Applications of Quantitative Sensory Testing Applied to Skin, Muscles and Viscera

2009 • 483 citations

Chronic pain and quality of life following open inguinal hernia repair

2001 • 476 citations

Characteristics and prediction of early pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy

2001 • 465 citations

The prevalence of postoperative pain in a sample of 1490 surgical inpatients

2007 • 434 citations

Effect of Postoperative Analgesia on Major Postoperative Complications: A Systematic Update of the Evidence

2007 • 427 citations

Improving the quality of reports of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials: the QUOROM statement

2000 • 420 citations

Opioid Tolerance and Hyperalgesia in Chronic Pain Patients After One Month of Oral Morphine Therapy: A Preliminary Prospective Study

2006 • 408 citations

The Roles of Pain Catastrophizing and Anxiety in the Prediction of Postoperative Pain Intensity

2005 • 405 citations

Psychosocial Factors and Surgical Outcomes: An Evidence-Based Literature Review

2006 • 363 citations

Risk factors for acute pain and its persistence following breast cancer surgery

2005 • 360 citations

Updating methods improved the performance of a clinical prediction model in new patients

2007 • 345 citations

Determinants of endogenous analgesia magnitude in a diffuse noxious inhibitory control (DNIC) paradigm: Do conditioning stimulus painfulness, gender and personality variables matter?

2007 • 342 citations

Somatic and Psychologic Predictors of Long-term Unfavorable Outcome After Surgical Intervention

2007 • 331 citations

Preoperative predictors of moderate to intense acute postoperative pain in patients undergoing abdominal surgery

2002 • 311 citations

Technology literature review: Quantitative sensory testing

2004 • 267 citations

A patient-based national survey on postoperative pain management in France reveals significant achievements and persistent challenges

2008 • 265 citations

Prediction of persistent pain after total knee replacement for osteoarthritis

2008 • 256 citations

Chronic post‐thoracotomy pain: a retrospective study

2006 • 248 citations

Gender, coping and the perception of pain

2002 • 248 citations

Anxiety and surgical recovery

2001 • 247 citations

Postcesarean Section Pain Prediction by Preoperative Experimental Pain Assessment

2003 • 243 citations

Multifactorial Preoperative Predictors for Postcesarean Section Pain and Analgesic Requirement

2006 • 242 citations

Postoperative Analgesic THerapy Observational Survey (PATHOS): A practice pattern study in 7 Central/Southern European countries

2007 • 226 citations

Preoperative emotional states in patients with breast cancer and postoperative pain

2002 • 223 citations

Postoperative Hyperalgesia

2006 • 207 citations

Prediction of Postoperative Pain by Preoperative Nociceptive Responses to Heat Stimulation

2003 • 192 citations

Small-Dose Ketamine Improves the Postoperative State of Depressed Patients

2002 • 188 citations

From acute to chronic pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A prospective follow-up analysis

2005 • 184 citations

A procedure‐specific systematic review and consensus recommendations for analgesia after total hip replacement

2005 • 184 citations

Quantitative assessment of experimental pain perception: multiple domains of clinical relevance

2005 • 177 citations

Socioeconomic disadvantage and pain

2008 • 176 citations

Experimental Pain in Healthy Human Subjects

1998 • 166 citations

Predicting Postoperative Pain by Preoperative Pressure Pain Assessment

2005 • 159 citations

Enhanced Presurgical Pain Temporal Summation Response Predicts Post-Thoracotomy Pain Intensity During the Acute Postoperative Phase

2009 • 149 citations

The impact of opioid-induced hyperalgesia for postoperative pain

2007 • 147 citations

Oral opioid use alters DNIC but not cold pain perception in patients with chronic pain – New perspective of opioid-induced hyperalgesia

2008 • 143 citations

The Prevalence of Postoperative Pain in a Cross-sectional Group of Patients After Day-case Surgery in a University Hospital

2007 • 140 citations

IASP global year against pain in older persons: highlighting the current status and future perspectives in geriatric pain

2007 • 133 citations

The Evolution of Primary Hyperalgesia in Orthopedic Surgery: Quantitative Sensory Testing and Clinical Evaluation Before and After Total Knee Arthroplasty

2007 • 131 citations

Pain Catastrophizing, Response to Experimental Heat Stimuli, and Post–Cesarean Section Pain

2006 • 128 citations

Pain tolerance as a predictor of outcome following multidisciplinary treatment for chronic pain: differential effects as a function of sex

2003 • 111 citations

Preoperative back pain is associated with diverse manifestations of central neuroplasticity

2002 • 106 citations

The Risk of Severe Postoperative Pain: Modification and Validation of a Clinical Prediction Rule

2008 • 105 citations

Postoperative Sensitization and Pain After Cesarean Delivery and the Effects of Single IM Doses of Tramadol and Diclofenac Alone and in Combination

2003 • 103 citations

Prediction of post‐operative pain by an electrical pain stimulus

2007 • 100 citations

Inhibitory effects do not depend on the subjective experience of pain during heterotopic noxious conditioning stimulation (HNCS): a contribution to the psychophysics of pain inhibition

2002 • 99 citations

Preoperative Prediction Model of Outcome after Cholecystectomy for Symptomatic Gallstones

1999 • 88 citations

Arnold-Chiari Malformation

2003 • 80 citations

The pharmacogenetics of analgesia

2007 • 78 citations

Organization, Function, and Implementation of Acute Pain Service

2005 • 75 citations

Self‐reported pain sensitivity: Lack of correlation with pain threshold and tolerance

2006 • 73 citations

Prediction of post‐operative pain after a laparoscopic tubal ligation procedure

2008 • 69 citations

Integrated assessment of pain scores and rescue morphine use during studies of analgesic efficacy.

1993 • 64 citations

Preoperative Anxiolysis and Postoperative Recovery in Women Undergoing Abdominal Hysterectomy

2001 • 59 citations

Gender differences in electrical pain threshold responses to transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)

2004 • 50 citations

Preoperative coping strategies and distress predict postoperative pain and morphine consumption in women undergoing abdominal gynecologic surgery

2005 • 50 citations

Prediction of postoperative pain

2007 • 42 citations

Opioid-induced hyperalgesia—Pathophysiology and clinical relevance

2007 • 40 citations

Can Preoperative Electrical Nociceptive Stimulation Predict Acute Pain After Groin Herniotomy?

2008 • 34 citations

The Role of Angina Pectoris in Chronic Pain After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

2007 • 26 citations

Pre‐operative pain and sensory function in groin hernia

2009 • 21 citations

Does Experimental Pain Assessment Before Biopsy Predict for Pain During Transrectal Ultrasound-Guided Prostate Biopsy?

2007 • 19 citations

The acute pain service: Present and future role

2007 • 11 citations

Arthroscopic Knee Surgery Does Not Modify Hyperalgesic Responses to Heat Injury

2003 • 9 citations

Responses to mechanical and electrical stimuli are not attenuated by late pregnancy

2004 • 5 citations

Clinical trials: cancer pain

2008 • 3 citations