Table II.

Follow-up variables during the first week in terms of pain severity, analgesics used and fever.

Parameters	PcV	no PcV	p-value
Pain severity 2–3 (n;%)
Day 0	48 (53%)	46 (58%)	0.542
Day 1	5 (5%)	22 (28%)	<0.001
Day 2	3 (3%)	8 (10%)	0.116
Days 3–7 (max)	2 (2%)	4 (5%)
Mean no. of days (range) with pain severity 2–3	0.1 (0–6)	0.5 (0–5)	<0.001
Analgesics (Yes; n;%)
Day 0	57 (63%)	61 (76%)	0.095
Day 1	20 (22%)	43 (54%)	<0.001
Day 2	9 (10%)	27 (34%)	<0.001
Day 3	4 (4%)	10 (13%)	0.091
Day 4–7 (max)	3 (3%)	8 (10%)
Median (range) no. of doses day 1–7	0.0 (0–8)	1.0 (0–17)	<0.001
Fever > 38° C (n;%)
Day 0	18 (20%)	13 (16%)	0.557
Day 1	3 (3%)	9 (11%)	0.069
Day 2	1 (1%)	5 (6%)	0.101
Day 3–7 (max)	3 (3%)	5 (6%)
Mean no. of days (range) of fever 1–7	0.7 (0–5)	0.8 (0–8)	0.585

Day 0 is the day of first visit. Days with ≤10% of the patients in every group are not shown separately but as maximum number per day (%) during the remaining days.