Does the quality of pain relief after major surgery influence the risk of postoperative complications? A prospective observational study

• Christine Kubulus ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Christine.Kubulus@uks.eu (CK); Thomas.Volk@uks.eu (TV)

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Anaesthesiology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany, Outcomes Research Consortium®, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0981-074X

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• Marcus Komann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

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• Markus Paxian,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, Ubbo-Emmius-Hospital, Aurich, Germany

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• Ann-Kristin Schubert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Campus Marburg, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

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• Daniel Schwarzkopf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1568-8202

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• Norman Rose,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-205X

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• Winfried Meissner,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

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• Ursula Marschall,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Health Services Research, BARMER Health Insurance, Wuppertal, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2607-8996

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• Johannes Dreiling,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9994-660X

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• Carolin Fleischmann-Struzek,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1104-3191

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• Thomas Volk ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Christine.Kubulus@uks.eu (CK); Thomas.Volk@uks.eu (TV)

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Anaesthesiology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany, Outcomes Research Consortium®, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• the net-ra investigators

  ¶Membership of the net-ra investigators is listed in the Acknowledgments.

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