Table 1.
Demographics of the participants. It was possible to have more than one previous disease.
Table 2.
Differences in time on the ventilator and stay in the TICU and the surgical ward.
Fig 1.
Medians of self-reported pain intensity for the control and the fast-track group at different time points after surgery.
Table 3.
Differences in pre-operative symptom frequency and symptom distress between the control and the fast-track group. Only patients reporting mild to severe distress are included. The symptoms are presented in descending order starting with the most frequent symptom in the whole sample (control and fast-track group).
Table 4.
Differences in symptom frequency and symptom-distress at the Thoracic Intensive Care Unit (TICU) between the control and the fast-track group. Only patients reporting mild to severe distress are included. The symptoms are presented in descending order starting with the most frequent symptom in the whole sample (control and fast-track group).
Table 5.
Differences in symptom frequency and symptom-distress in the thoracic surgical ward between the control and the fast-track group. Only patients reporting mild to severe distress are included. The symptoms are presented in descending order starting with the most frequent symptom in the whole sample (control group and fast-track group).
Table 6.
Longitudinal changes in symptom distress from before cardiac surgery, via the Thoracic Intensive Care Unit (TICU) to post surgery at the thoracic surgical ward.