“…36,39,43,50,53,55,56 However, the results from these studies were consistent with the results from studies amenable to pooling. We used the IASP criteria for the definition of persistent pain in this review; however, 14 of the included studies did not report whether their assessment of persistent postsurgical pain excluded other causes of pain; 26,[33][34][35][36]43,45,47,48,50,51,54,56,58 as such, they may have overestimated the prevalence of persistent pain.…”