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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Orthop Trauma. 2015 Oct;29(10):e385–e390. doi: 10.1097/BOT.0000000000000372

Table 1.

Performance on simulator in novice and experienced groups for each trial and averaged across all three trials.

Novice Experienced p-value
Tip-apex distance (mm)
 Trial 1 29.1±20.9 12.4±4.7 0.017*
 Trial 2 22.0±12.4 14.2±6.9 0.069
 Trial 3 18.2±9.2 11.5±6.3 0.037*
 Average 23.1±11.7 12.7±3.9 0.009*
 p-value 0.021* 0.59

Time (s)
 Trial 1 180.9±64.5 205.9±90.3 0.34
 Trial 2 147.8±72.7 129.0±43.3 0.45
 Trial 3 133.7±63.3 121.9±52.1 0.60
 Average 154.1±56.7 152.4±49.3 0.93
 p-value 0.023* 0.013*

Number of fluoro shots
 Trial 1 25.1±11.4 38.8±19.8 0.010*
 Trial 2 24.0±15.2 26.4±12.4 0.66
 Trial 3 24.3±16.2 23.6±13.2 0.90
 Average 24.5±12.7 29.6±12.3 0.27
 p-value 0.96 0.083

Values demonstrate mean ± SD.

*

p<0.05