A Cohort Study on the Comparison of Complications, Short-Term Efficacy, and Quality of Life between Thoracoscopic Surgery and Traditional Surgery in the Treatment of Rib Fractures

Table 3

Comparison of SF-36 score and VAS score between the two groups before and after the operation (  ± s, n = 50).

Group	SF-36 scoring		VAS scoring
	Before operation	After operation	Before operation	After operation
Control group	75.60 ± 3.31	78.24 ± 2.75a	7.46 ± 1.31	5.58 ± 1.11a
Research group	75.47 ± 3.29	83.17 ± 2.60b	7.50 ± 1.42	4.37 ± 0.85b
T value	0.197	9.211	0.146	6.120
value	0.844	0.001	0.884	0.001

The control group before and after treatment, ; the study group before and after treatment, .