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. 1998 Mar 21;316(7135):903–904. doi: 10.1136/bmj.316.7135.903

Table 1.

Differences between patients with and without pain in phantom limb in time from amputation and scores on hospital anxiety and depression scale. Values are means (95% confidence intervals)

Correlation
Phantom pain (n=29) Non-phantom pain (n=64) Mann-Whitney U test Kendall’s tau*
Time from amputation (years) 6.79 (2.62 to 10.96) 11.06 (7.14 to 14.98) 873, P=0.65
Anxiety score 4.66 (2.74 to 6.66)  3.59 (3.38 to 3.80) 912, P=0.90  0.16, P=0.03
Depression score 3.45 (1.82 to 5.08)  2.78 (2.09 to 3.47) 892, P=0.76 −0.04, P=0.53
*

For time from amputation.