Table 4.

Electronic and paper score by factor

		Palm score	Paper record score	Differencea	pwithin
Randomization	Palm/Paper (n = 104)	3.13 (2.21)	3.02 (2.25)	0.115 (0.998)	0.315
	Paper/Palm (n = 98)	3.29 (2.30)	3.24 (2.43)	0.041 (0.907)	0.825
	pbetween	0.716	0.577	0.517
Preference	Preference Electronic (n = 159)	3.04 (2.11)	2.94 (2.18)	0.101 (1.001)	0.209
	Preference Paper (n = 23)	4.00 (2.95)	4.09 (3.16)	-0.087 (0.733)	1.000
	pbetween	0.159	0.136	0.375
Ward	Medicine (n = 36)	4.22 (2.07)	4.33 (2.11)	-0.111 (0.820)	0.688
	Surgery (n = 166)	2.99 (2.23)	2.87 (2.30)	0.120 (0.977)	0.116
	pbetween	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.169
Age (3 categories)	4-6 years (n = 60)	2.63 (2.10)	2.53 (2.24)	0.100 (0.933)	0.590
	7-9 years (n = 66)	3.33 (2.39)	3.06 (2.36)	0.273 (1.046)	0.057
	10-12 years (n = 76)	3.55 (2.18)	3.66 (2.30)	-0.105 (0.858)	0.432
	pbetween	0.035b	0.009b	0.099
Sex	Female (n = 85)	3.51 (2.41)	3.27 (2.37)	0.235 (0.947)	0.037
	Male (n = 117)	2.99 (2.11)	3.03 (2.31)	-0.034 (0.946)	0.811
	pbetween	0.168	0.463	0.056
Analgesic treatment	None (n = 40)	3.03 (2.33)	3.00 (2.48)	0.300 (1.067)	0.156
	Level 1 (n = 64)	2.63 (2.07)	2.44 (2.09)	0.188 (0.924)	0.180
	Level 2 (n = 53)	3.47 (1.93)	3.58 (1.98)	-0.113 (0.993)	0.594
	Level 3 (n = 45)	3.64 (2.64)	3.69 (2.70)	-0.044 (0.796)	1.000
	pbetween	0.079	0.001c	0.120

^aDifference equals electronic assessment minus paper assessment

^b4-6 years group significantly different from 10-12 years group

^cLevel 1 different from Level 2 and Level 3

p_wtihin : comparison to 0 (sign rank test)

p_between : Wilcoxon test

* Analgesic levels: reference to the three step analgesic ladder of WHO