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Figure 3

From: A randomized, placebo controlled, trial of preoperative sustained release Betamethasone plus non-controlled intraoperative Ketorolac or Fentanyl on pain after diagnostic laparoscopy or laparoscopic tubal ligation [ISRCTN52633712]

Figure 3

Plotted are the mean pain VAS scores (+ S.E.M. error bar) with survey times as in Figure 1. Repeated measures ANOVA as indicated for patients undergoing tubal ligation (shaded bar) compared to the patients having diagnostic laparoscopy (solid bar). Number of subjects interviewed at each time point is indicated above each set of bars. Number lower than enrolled reflects unresponsive subjects at early postoperative times and subjects discharged early for later time points. Repeated measures ANOVA showed a significant, within subject, effect of time (F = 20.096 (with Huynh-Feldt correction) ; P = 0.009) but interaction between time and treatment were not significant (F = 1.086; P = 0.37).

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