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. 2018 Jul 3;26:53. doi: 10.1186/s13049-018-0521-2

Table 3.

Characteristics of patients according to pain status

Moderate to severe paina, b
Yes No No information
Agec 54.4 (54.0–54.8) 61.4 (61.1–61.8) 58.7 (58.2–59.1) P = 0.02
Male sexb 46.9 (45.9–47.8) 53.4 (52.7–54.2) 51.9 (51.0–52.7) P = 0.001
Comorbidityb
 0 54.8 (53.9–55.7) 40.8 (40.0–41.5) 43.7 (42.9–44.5)
 1 15.9 (15.2–16.6) 20.1 (19.5–20.7) 18.3 (19.5–20.7)
 2 11.1 (10.5–11.7) 13.4 (12.9–13.9) 13.4 (12.8–13.9)
 3+ 18.2 (17.4–18.8) 25.7 (25.0–26.4) 24.6 (23.9–25.4) P = 0.001
30 day mortalityb 2.8 (2.5–3.1) 4.4 (4.1–4.7) 5.8 (5.4–6.2) P = 0.0001
112 emergency callb 50.7 (49.7–51.6) 47.0 (46.2–47.8) 52.2 (51.3–53.0) P = 0.001

aModerate to severe pain defined as a numeric rating scale ≥ 4; or “moderate” pain or higher registered on a 4-point verbal rating scale upon initial patient triage

bGiven as proportions (%) with 95% confidence intervals

cGiven as mean with 95% confidence intervals