Pain Assessment Recommendations for Women, Made by Women: A Mixed Methods Study.

Objective: To quantitatively describe women's priorities for pain assessment and qualitatively explain unique features of women's pain experiences.

Design: Mixed-methods study that included a three-round Delphi study followed by in-depth interviews.

Setting: Clinical research study.

Tradeoffs between fisheries harvest and the resilience of coral reefs.

Many countries are legally obliged to embrace ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management. Reductions in bycatch and physical habitat damage are now commonplace, but mitigating more sophisticated impacts associated with the ecological functions of target fisheries species are in their infancy. Here we model the impacts of a parrotfish fishery on the future state and resilience of Caribbean coral reefs, enabling us to view the tradeoff between harvest and ecosystem health.

A randomized pilot study of a comprehensive postoperative exercise program compared with usual care following primary total hip arthroplasty in subjects less than 65 years of age: feasibility, selection of outcome measures and timing of assessment.

Background: Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) is being used more commonly in younger higher demand patients. The purpose of this randomized pilot study was to explore a) feasibility of comprehensive postoperative rehabilitation compared to usual care following primary THA in subjects <65 years, b) appropriate outcome measures including performance-based measures and c) timing of assessments.

Methods: 21 subjects who underwent primary THA were randomized to receive a three-month out-patient rehabilitation program (Intervention) or usual postoperative care (Control).

A comparative study of pain, sleep quality and pain responsiveness in fibrositis and myofascial pain syndrome.

Twenty patients with fibrositis and 19 patients with myofascial pain syndrome were compared with regard to pain levels, sleep quality, general pain threshold and localized pain responsiveness at fibrositic tender points. Patients with fibrositis had significantly lower pain responsiveness (p less than 0.01), lower pain threshold (p less than 0.

Constancy and change in coral reef habitats along depth gradients at Curaçao.

The cover of the main components of the substratum, their spatial relations as well as mortality of the most important living component (Scleractinia) were studied at the leeward reef of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. We used a point intercept method to analyse cover as well as change in spatial arrangement in sets of photographs of the same 12 quadrats (3mx3m) taken in 1973 and 1978. Four quadrats were situated, along each of three transects, on the reef slope at depth of 10, 20, 30 and 40 m.