Table 4 Comparison of Newcastle Satisfaction with Nursing Scale scores between two groups of patients with lower extremity fractures (‾x ± s). The asterisk “*” indicates the degree of significance of the test. Generally speaking, one star represents significance at the 0.05 level, indicating 90% significance; two stars represent significance at the 0.01 level, indicating 95% significance; and three stars represent significance at the 0.001 level, indicating 99% significance