Open AccessA Qualitative Descriptive Study of Patient Experiences of Pain Before and After Spine Surgery
Author(s) -
Michelle C. Accardi-Ravid,
Linda H. Eaton,
Alexa R. Meins,
Daniel Godfrey,
Debra B. Gordon,
I. Lesnik,
Ardith Z. Doorenbos
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
pain medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1526-4637
pISSN - 1526-2375
DOI - 10.1093/pm/pnz090
Subject(s) - medicine , perioperative , qualitative research , perspective (graphical) , physical therapy , descriptive research , surgery , social science , statistics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , sociology , computer science
The purpose of this study was to describe the preoperative and postoperative experiences of spine surgery from the patient's perspective to help inform behavioral health services provided before, during, and after hospitalization.