Background
About half a million surgical procedures are carried out in Norway each year. We investigate how patients are doing just before and in the days, weeks, and months after surgery.
We ask about the experience of pain and pain relief, but also about entirely different aspects of life: everything from everyday joys to worries and loneliness is important for understanding recovery after surgery.
The project will generate new and clinically useful data on pain, recovery, and opioid use after surgery in Norway, as well as develop useful tools to assess risk before patients are discharged with opioids for home use.
Our goal
The main goal of this project is to establish a quick and reliable clinical tool to assess patients' risk for long-lasting opioid use after surgical interventions in Norway. As a part of this project, we will also be able to estimate how prevalent long-lasting and problematic opioid use after surgery is in Norway.
Our secondary goal is to make a thorough and systematic assessment with high ecological validity investigating the acute effects of morphine, fentanyl, and oxycodone on the patient's feeling of well-being before induction of anesthesia.