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Table 2 Overall Benefit of Analgesic Score calculation sheet [13]. Answers to the following statements are requested from the patient

From: Continuous wound infiltration or epidural analgesia for pain prevention after hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery within an enhanced recovery program (POP-UP trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

1. Please rate your current pain at rest on a scale between (0 = minimal pain and 4 = maximum imaginable pain)

2. Please grade any distress and bother from vomiting in the past 24 h (0 = not at all to 4 = very much)

3. Please grade any distress and bother from itching in the past 24 h (0 = not at all to 4 = very much)

4. Please grade any distress and bother from sweating in the past 24 h (0 = not at all to 4 = very much)

5. Please grade any distress and bother from freezing in the past 24 h (0 = not at all to 4 = very much)

6. Please grade any distress and bother from dizziness in the past 24 h (0 = not at all to 4 = very much)

7. How satisfied are you with your pain treatment during the past 24 h (0 = not at all to 4 = very much)

  1. *To calculate the OBAS score, compute the sum of scores in items 1–6 and add “4 − score in item 7”
  2. Overall benefit of analgesia score* |__|__|
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