Table 3.

Assignment of a clinical gallstone symptom score to different preoperative symptom frequency groups (%)

		Percent of patients with symptoms according to pain presentation
Symptom	Score	Severe	Moderate	Mild	Chronic
Pain in upper abdomen: Pain most common in right upper quadrant or intensifies when bending forward or lying on the right side	2	100	96.6	94.1	88.2
Pain attacks commonly last more than one hour	1	73.0	66.7	76.5	46.2
Pain in a ”plateau fashion”	1	62.2	72.9	67.6	64.3
Urge to move during pain attacks	1	51.4	69.0	58.8	84.6
Pain commonly occurs at night	1	43.2	61.0	50.0	29.4
Pain radiation to the back	1	40.5	47.5	38.2	58.8
Nausea during pain attacks	1	61.1	48.3	52.9	50.0
Use of analgesics in > 50% of pain attacks	1	54.0	54.3	44.1	41.2
Perspiration during pain attacks	1	36.1	41.4	41.2	60.0