Data collection
Demographic data of patients associated with wound healing and pain were collected together with operative details.
Pain VAS score was collected as continuous data using a questionnaire depicting 10-cm blank line marked from 0-10 to represent a continuum of pain with word anchors of “no pain” on the left and “worst pain” on the right. Patients were asked to record their worst pain level on days 0, 3, 7, and 14.
The number of rescue medication used according to the analgesic protocol, which are the amount of paracetamol tablets taken and doses of morphine injection requested in the first 3 days postoperation were collected (Table1).