Rehabilitation After Urgent or Elective Orthopedic Surgery: The Role of Resilience in Elderly Patients.

Purpose: The aim of this investigation was to assess resilience within an elderly population during postacute rehabilitation for orthopedic surgery and to identify the role of resilience on rehabilitation outcomes by comparing hip fracture and elective patients (total knee and hip arthroplasty).

Design: We conducted a prospective study in an orthopedic rehabilitation department.

Methods: On admission and on discharge, 80 patients aged over 60 years underwent a multidimensional evaluation with the Resilience Scale, the Functional Independence Measure (FIM), the Multidimensional Prognostic Index, and the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF.

Ambiguity and uncertainty tolerance, need for cognition, and their association with stress. A study among Italian practicing physicians.

Unlabelled: Medical practice is inherently ambiguous and uncertain. The physicians' ability to tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty has been proved to have a great impact on clinical practice. The primary aim of the present study was to test the hypothesis that higher degree of physicians' ambiguity and uncertainty intolerance and higher need for cognitive closure will predict higher work stress.