A Case-Control Study of the Effects of Implementing the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario Guidelines for the Assessment and Management of Postoperative Pain and the Use of Relaxation Therapy in 312 Patients with Bone and Soft-Tissue Malignancy

13 September 2022 : Clinical Research

Qian Gao^12ABCDEF, Qi Xu^12BC, Xiaowei Zhou^12D, Zhaonong Yao^12F, Yuhong Yao^12AEFG*

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.937496

Med Sci Monit 2022; 28:e937496

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Table 1 Patient characteristics. There was no statistical difference between the 2 groups regarding sex, age, or tumor types.

	Number	Sex (n)		Age (mean, SD)	Type of tumor (n)
	Number	Male	Female	Age (mean, SD)	Primary	Metastasis
Intervention group	156	79	77	46.69±20.58	108	48
Control group	156	90	66	46.17±20.00	105	51
t/χ		1.562		0.226	0.133
-value		0.211		0.822	0.715
SD – standard deviation.

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