2024 Volume 44 Issue 7 Pages 581-589
At our institution, we employ a FileMaker Pro database for postoperative pain management. The database has been enhanced by adding a function to perform real-time descriptive statistics independently within the system, aiming to understand the results of our rounds.
After obtaining approval from the medical ethics committee, we collected data from 7,925 patients between January 2018 and December 2022. Descriptive statistics were performed on the median Numeric Rating Scale values for pain at rest and during movement, separated by intravenous and epidural principal component analyses, and on the incidence of postoperative symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, headache, drowsiness, itching, and poor pain control. We conducted a verification for descriptive statistics to ensure consistency between values automatically calculated by the system and those calculated manually using the same dataset.
We confirmed consistency between the descriptive statistics automatically calculated by the system and manual calculations.
