Table 2.

Pain, overall tolerability, gagging, choking, anxiety scores and waiting trade off (in days) in the three groups studied

	muTNE (N=71)	huTNE (N=71)	sEGD (N=59)
Waiting Trade Off (days)
Mean (SEM)	7.1 (0.8)	7.4 (1.3)	5.8 (0.65)
P-Value Comparing All Groups: 0.5126
Pain (Scale 0–10 with 10 being most painful)
Mean (SEM)	2 (0.2)	2.8 (0.3)	0.1 (0.1)
P-Value Comparing All Groups: <0.0001
Overall Tolerability (Scale 1–10 with 10 being least tolerable)
Mean (SEM)	1.9 (0.1)	2.2 (0.3)	0.4 (0.1)
P-Value Comparing All Groups: <0.0001
Gagging (Scale 1–10 with 10 being maximal)
Mean (SEM)	1.3 (0.3)	1.1 (0.3)	0.2 (0.1)
P-Value Comparing All Groups: 0.001
Choking (Scale 1–10 with 10 being maximal)
Mean (SEM)	0.6 (0.2)	0.8 (0.2)	0 (0)
P-Value Comparing All Groups: 0.0034
Anxiety (Scale 1–10 with 10 being maximal)
Mean (SEM)	2.7 (0.3)	2.2 (0.3)	0.9 (0.2)
P-Value Comparing All Groups: <0.0001

muTNE: Unsedated transnasal endoscopy done in mobile research unit

huTNE: Unsedated transnasal endoscopy done in the clinic

sEGD: Traditional sedated EGD