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Table 4 Differences for M/SP prevalence and pain therapy for M/SP between the two departments

From: Pain prevalence and pain management in children and adolescents in an italian third level pediatric hospital: a cross-sectional study

 

Oncohematology Department

Surgery Department

p-value

Patients n

21

42

 

Patients with M/S P

9

23

 

M/SP During hospitalization

43% (9/21)

55% (23/42)

0.373

M/SP 24 h before interview

14% (3/21)

40% (17/42)

0.046

At time of interview

5% (1/21))

21% (9/42)

0.144

Mean value PMI

-1

-2

< 0.001

Standard Deviation PMI

± 0.7

± 0.7

Minimum PMI

-2

-3

 

Maximum PMI

0

0

 

PMI < 0 (undertreated Pain)

78% (7/9)

91% (21/23)

0.557

PMI = or > 0

22% (2/9)

9% (2/23)

 

Time Based therapy

67% (6/9)

61% (14/23)

1.000

Intermittent Therapy

33% (3/9)

17% (4/23)

0.370

No Therapy

0

22% (5/23

0.288

Multimodal Analgesia

11% (1/9)

13% (3/23)

1.000

Opioids alone

22% (2/9)

0

0.073

  1. Legend: The number of patients for each variable taken into consideration are indicated in brackets.