Nurse initiated auricular acupressure for post-operative pain control in patients undergoing TKA or THA: A randomized controlled trial

Affiliations

• ¹ Center for Nursing Research, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Medical Center Blvd, Winston Salem, NC, 27157, USA. Electronic address: cshuffma@wakehealth.edu.
• ² Integrative Health Coordinating Center, Veterans Health Administration, Des Moines, IA, 50325, USA.
• ³ Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
• ⁴ Comprehensive Cancer Center, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Medical Center Blvd, Winston Salem, NC, 27157, USA.
• ⁵ Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Davie Medical Center, 329 NC Highway 801 North, Bermuda Run, NC, 27006, USA.
• ⁶ Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Davie Medical Center, USA.
• ⁷ Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Pain Center, 605 Cotton Street, NC, 27101, USA.
• ⁸ Former Professor of Family Medicine and Former Director of Center for Integrative Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA.