Postthyroidectomy Throat Pain and Swallowing: Do Proton Pump Inhibitors Make a Difference?

Table 2

This table illustrates the mean scores for both groups and their statistical significance during the first postoperative day (POD1), midweek, POD7, the overall average, and the overall average excluding the POD1 (POD2 to POD7).

	Control	Study	Significance
POD1 pain	5.26	4.58	0.4
POD1 dysphagia	4.7	3.74	0.112
Midweek pain	3.9	2.57	0.001
Midweek dysphagia	3.12	1.87	0.001
POD7 pain	2.41	1.27	0.001
POD7 dysphagia	1.76	0.87	0.007
Pain average	3.86	2.8	0.002
Dysphagia average	3.2	2.16	0.005
Pain average excl POD1	2.15	1.84	0.001
Dysphagia average excl POD1	1.96	1.65	0.002