Persistent Pain After Cesarean Delivery and Vaginal Delivery: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Background: Persistent pain after cesarean delivery and vaginal delivery has been the subject of only a few research articles. The primary outcome of our prospective study was the incidence of persistent pain and its association to mode of delivery. We also studied the nature and intensity of pain after delivery.

Does increasing cigarette excise tax improve people's health? The cases of heart attacks and stroke.

Introduction: Recently, public health advocates have fervently supported an increase in the cigarette excise tax as a means of reducing smoking. Likewise, political leaders have heavily relied on the cigarette excise tax as a means of encouraging a reduction in the overall rates of cigarette use. However, little is known about whether the cigarette excise tax is a valid tool for reducing the negative effects of smoking on public health.

Establishing diabetes self-management in a community health center serving low-income Latinos.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe the implementation of the chronic care model for Latinos with diabetes. Additional interventions to enhance disease self-management were also implemented. Programmatic elements are described, data are reviewed to characterize the extent to which patients were engaged in various activities, and changes in glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) are presented.

Ondansetron and tropisetron do not prevent intraspinal morphine- and fentanyl-induced pruritus in elective cesarean delivery.

Background: Although intraspinal morphine has been shown to be effective in providing analgesia after cesarean delivery, pruritus as a side-effect remains a common cause of dissatisfaction. The role of ondansetron has been studied in preventing pruritus but the results have been contradictory.

Methods: We randomized 98 parturients undergoing elective cesarean section using combined spinal-epidural anesthesia into a double-blinded trial to receive tropisetron 5 mg (T group) or ondansetron 8 mg (O group) or placebo (NaCl group) after delivery, when intrathecal morphine 160 microg and fentanyl 15 microg were used for post-operative pain control.

Entrepreneurial propensity in health care: models and propositions for empirical research.

We maintain that entrepreneurial propensity is a focal construct in entrepreneurial research. We synthesize the literature to develop models depicting the antecedents and consequents of entrepreneurial propensity in a network of other constructs and variables of interest in the health care industry. We advance propositions for empirical investigation and validation of competing research models associated with entrepreneurial propensity.