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Table 2 Demographics: usual care and intervention groups

From: Evaluating a targeted person-centred pain management intervention programme in lumbar spine surgery - a controlled segment-specific before-and-after interventional design

Variable

Usual care group

n = 123)

Intervention group

(n = 98)

p

Female, n (%)

62 (50.4)

54 (55.1)

0.49

Age, years, mean (SD)

60 (15.8)

65 (12.4)

0.007

ASA I-II n (%)

87 (71)

61 (62)

0.18

ASA III n (%)

36 (29)

37 (37)

 

Preoperative pain, mean (SD)

6.7 (2.3)

7.1 (2.0)

0.058