Ten-year subjective outcome results of the retropubic tension-free vaginal tape for treatment of stress urinary incontinence.

Study Objective: To assess the 10-year subjective outcome of use of retropubic tension-free vaginal tape (TVT).

Design: Structured telephone interview (Canadian Task Force classification II-3).

Setting: Universitiy-affiliated tertiary medical center.

Long-term outcome of transobturator tension-free vaginal tape: efficacy and risk factors for surgical failure.

Purpose: To assess the 5-year efficacy of the inside-out transobturator tension-free vaginal tape (TVT-O) for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and to explore possible predictors for long-term failure.

Methods: Sixty-five consecutive patients who underwent TVT-O were prospectively enrolled. Patients who required concomitant anterior or apical pelvic organ prolapse repair or both and those with urodynamic occult SUI were excluded.

Open-label, add-on study of tetrahydrocannabinol for chronic nonmalignant pain.

Cannabinoids have been used for pain relief for centuries and recent studies have investigated their analgesic and anti-inflammatory mechanisms, as well as clinical efficacy, in treating chronic pain. We report an open-label study addressed to evaluate the effect and adverse events of orally administered Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Delta-9-THC) in 13 patients with chronic nonmalignant pain (CNMP) unresponsive to conventional pharmacotherapy. The effect of the treatment was assessed on an eight-item HRQoL questionnaire.

Determination of clinically meaningful levels of pain reduction in patients experiencing acute postoperative pain.

Assessment is an essential, but challenging, component of any pain management plan. Nurses who care for postoperative patients quantify and document pain by use of unidimensional scales such as the numeric rating scale, the visual analogue scale, or a verbal descriptor scale. Improvements in pain ratings on these scales are viewed as a welcome result by nurses and doctors.

Nurses' assessment of pain in surgical patients.

Aim: This paper reports a study to compare nurses' ratings of pain intensity and suffering (affect) in adult surgical patients with patients' own ratings of these variables, and to investigate whether pain ratings were influenced by cultural and ethnic differences.

Background: Studies show that postoperative pain continues to be under-treated in a large proportion of cases. The problem may be partly due to inaccurate pain assessment by nurses.