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Acute postoperative pain in 1 231 patients at a developing country referral hospital: incidence and risk factors

Published in: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia
Volume 22 , issue 1 , 2016 , pages: 19–24

DOI: 10.1080/22201181.2015.1115608

Author(s): Adriaan Albertus Murray Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, South Africa , Francois Wilhelm Retief Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, South Africa

Keywords: analgesia , developing country , health resources , incidence , postoperative pain , risk factors

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Abstract

Background: Postoperative pain is poorly studied in developing countries. At a Western Cape referral hospital, it was aimed to determine the incidence of acute postoperative pain, to identify populations associated with a higher risk thereof (in order to guide resource allocation) and to investigate whether inexpensive analgesic modalities are currently utilised maximally.

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