Table 4

Pain score and number of venesection attempts

nN
Pain score (median and IQR)
 Arterial pain score4 (2–5)187
 Venous pain score1 (0–2)205
Number of attempts (N and %)
 Arterial number of attempts
  1162 (69.2)
  255 (23.5)
  310 (4.3)
  ≥47 (3.0)234
 Venous number of attempts
  1211 (90.2)
  218 (7.7)
  ≥35 (2.1)234