There is significant interest in the medical community in the use of music as a therapeutic mo dality to improve a wide variety of clinical outcomes [1,2]. Patient satisfaction is often found to improve with music use in randomised trials, and a recent meta-analysis confirms the finding that music may have a strong effect on patient satisfaction [3]. In the US, the use of a cost-effective intervention to improve patient satisfaction is of interest to hospital administrations because a portion of Medicare (the US federal health insurance) reim bursements is based on the results of patient satisfaction surveys under the Hospital Valuebased Purchasing programme of the Affordable Care Act (a US law that increases health insurance coverage) [4,5].
Aim: We investigated whether sex is associated with pain scores and opioid administration after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. Materials & methods: We performed a single-center, retrospective analysis of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy patients from December 2016–July 2018. Multivariable linear regressions were performed to investigate the association of sex with pain scores and opioid administration. Results: Baseline pain scores were similar between women and men (n = 266; 78% women). Men reported lower pain scores in all phases of care and received more opioids during their hospitalization (ß = 25.48; 95% CI: 5.77–45.20; p = 0.01), compared with women. Conclusion: Our data suggest that women self-report greater postoperative pain scores, while men received more opioids during their hospitalization. Further studies are needed to understand the reasons for such differences in postoperative pain management.
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