SynthesisFrontiers in psychology2026
Postoperative pain trajectories and associated factors in patients undergoing lung cancer surgery: a scoping review.
Synthesis in Frontiers in psychology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objectives: This scoping review aimed to map the available evidence on postoperative pain trajectories and associated factors in patients undergoing lung cancer surgery and to inform precision pain management in clinical practice. Methods: PubMed, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, Embase, CINAHL, CNKI, Wanfang, VIP, and the China Biology Medicine database (CBM) were searched from inception to January 31, 2026. Eligible studies were screened, charted, and narratively synthesized. Results: Eleven studies were included, reporting 35 study-specific trajectory classes, with two to four classes identified per study. These trajectories could be broadly grouped into trajectories based on pain intensity and recovery outcomes, trajectories based on pain threshold changes, and trajectories characterized by pain context or special patterns of evolution. Fourteen assessment tools were identified and classified into five categories: pain measurement instruments, generic pain scales, pain-specific scales, psychological and emotional scales, and sleep-related scales. Associated factors clustered into four domains: physiological, surgery-related, analgesic, and cognitive-psychological factors. Conclusion: Postoperative pain trajectories following lung cancer surgery are heterogeneous and study-specific. Future studies should standardize trajectory measurement and reporting, externally validate risk-stratification approaches, and prospectively evaluate the clinical effectiveness of trajectory-informed care. Systematic review registration: https://archive.org/details/osf-registrations-s6u7q-v1.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.