The Brief Measure of Emotional Preoperative Stress (B-MEPS) as a new predictive tool for postoperative pain: A prospective observational cohort study

• Anelise Schifino Wolmeister,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Postgraduate Program in Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, Laboratory of Pain & Neuromodulation, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil

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• Carolina Lourenzon Schiavo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Postgraduate Program in Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

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• Kahio César Kuntz Nazário,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine Service, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil

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• Stela Maris de Jezus Castro,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

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• Andressa de Souza,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Pain & Neuromodulation, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil

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• Rafael Poli Caetani,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

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• Wolnei Caumo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

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• Luciana Cadore Stefani

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lpstefani@hcpa.edu.br

  Affiliations Laboratory of Pain & Neuromodulation, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil, Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine Service, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3038-3108

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