Table 1.

Patient responses to a pain management survey in 2001 and 1996 at Baylor University Medical Center

	% saying yes
Survey item	2001	1996	P value
Hospital staff explained how pain would be relieved after surgery	93	36	0.0001*
Method of pain relief was too painful	0	6	0.0117*
Had to wait too long to get pain medicine	3	7	0.1517
Pain relief was too slow	5	7	0.4128
Never had good pain relief	6	9	0.3314
Concerned about bothering nurse to ask for pain medicine	3	14	0.0023*
Concerned about becoming addicted to pain medicine	4	17	0.0009*

*Significant at 0.05 level.