Assessment of Acute Pain Management and Associated Factors among Emergency Surgical Patients in Gondar University Specialized Hospital Emergency Department, Northwest Ethiopia, 2018: Institutional Based Cross-Sectional Study

Table 5

Associated factors for analgesia delivery in GUSHED, Northwest Ethiopia, 2018 (N= 203).

Factors	Group	P value	Odds ratio		95 CI
			COR	AOR	Lower	Upper
Age	18-29(59.1%)	0.379	1.23	1.61	0.56	4.64
	30-59(31.0%)	0.024	2.40	4.04	1.14	13.65
	≥60(9.9%)	0.035
Cause of ED admission	Non-trauma (34%); Trauma (66%)	<0.001	3.02	3.99	2.01	7.94
Physician pain assessment	No (79.8%); Yes (20.2%)	0.02	3.71	3.09	1.18	8.06
Pain severity at presentation	Mild (4.9%)	0.017
	Moderate (23.3%)	0.630	0.62	0.71	0.18	2.83
	Sever (71.9%)	0.007	3.03	3.49	1.42	8.54
Patients analgesic request	No (36.9%); Yes (63.1%)	0.168	1.52	-

Multivariate logistic regression analysis was done. P value less than 0.05 was statistically significant.
AOR=adjusted odds ratio, COD=crude odds ratio, and CI= confidence interval.