Table 1.
Trial schedule
| Preoperative | Postoperative |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline | 24 h | 14 days* | 6 months | ||
| Screen/eligibility | x | OPERATION AND SET-UP OF TRIAL INFUSION | |||
| Consent | x | ||||
| BMI | x | ||||
| Concomitant medication | x | x | x | ||
| Oxford Shoulder Score (OSS) | x | x | |||
| Shoulder questions (from OSS) | x | ||||
| Shoulder goniometry | x | x | x | x | |
| EQ-5D 5L | x | x | x | ||
| Randomisation | x | ||||
| VAS pain score | x | x | x | ||
| VRS pain score | x | ||||
| PCA attempts | x | ||||
| Total morphine consumption (oral/IV) | x | ||||
| Analgesia use | x | x | x | ||
| Adverse events | x | x | x | ||
| Brief Pain Inventory | x | ||||
| Service use | x | ||||
*Approximately 10–14 days post-operatively according to local practice.
EQ-5D 5L, EuroQoL-5D 5L;VAS, Visual Analogue Scale; VRS, Verbal Rating Scale; PCA, patient-controlled analgesia.