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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 9.
Published in final edited form as: Clin J Pain. 2010 Mar-Apr;26(3):199–205. doi: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e3181bed10c

Table 2.

Time to initial analgesic

Sickle Cell
Disease		 Renal Colic p value
Time to initial analgesic,
minutes (median, ICR) 		80 (48, 145) 50 (30, 96) <0.01
Route (median, IQR)
 Intravenous
 Oral
 Intramuscular		 67 (46, 118)
73 (50, 204)
104 (55, 182)		 50 (28, 91)
125 (60, 136)
61 (n=1)		 0.01
0.22
N/A
Number of visits/study period
per individual patient (mean,
95% CI)*
 1-3
 4-12
 ≥13
109 (88, 131)
102 (81, 122)
112 (98, 127)		 N/A N/A
*

There were no differences for patients with sickle cell disease in time to initial analgesic based on the number of visits during the study period for an individual patient.