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Table 2 Respondents’ views on analgesic interference with evolution of signs, effect on diagnosis and outcome

From: Administration of analgesics in patients with acute abdominal pain: a survey of the practice of doctors in a developing country

Interference with evolution of signs

Yes

455

84.4%

No

84

15.6%

Effect on diagnosis

  

 Enhance

28

5.2%

 Impair

420

77.9%

 No effect

91

16.9%

Effect on outcome

  

 Adverse effect

294

54.5%

 Beneficial

112

20.8%

 None

133

24.7%