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. 2007 Jun 13;7:8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-7-8

Table 2.

The difference in verbal pain scale between the two groups.

Low pain Scale High pain Scale Total
Three Port 230 (60.7%) 53 (45.7%) 283
Four Port 149 (39.3%) 63 (54.3%) 212
Total 379 116

The verbal pain scale is a scale of four grades; the average pain scale score was calculated for each patient. Grades 1 and 2 were grouped as low pain scale while grades 3 and 4 were graded as high pain scale.