Gaining insight from future mothers: A survey of attitudes and perspectives of childbirth.

Objective: To determine whether participant characteristics and/or birth preferences of future mothers are associated with a fear of birth.

Design: A cross-sectional survey was used to determine if fear of birth could be profiled in specific participant characteristics and birth choices.

Setting: Urban New Zealand university.

The rural tax: comprehensive out-of-pocket costs associated with patient travel in British Columbia.

Background: A significant concern for rural patients is the cost of travel outside of their community for specialist and diagnostic care. Often, these costs are transferred to patients and their families, who also experience stress associated with traveling for care. We sought to examine the rural patient experience by (1) estimating and categorizing the various out of pocket costs associated with traveling for healthcare and (2) describing and measuring patient stress and other experiences associated with traveling to seek care, specifically in relation to household income.

Accuracy of pQCT for evaluating the aged human radius: an ashing, histomorphometry and failure load investigation.

Introduction: Quantifying the determinants of bone strength is essential to understanding if or how the structure will fail under load. Determining failure requires knowledge of material and geometric properties. However, characterizing the relative contributions of geometric parameters of bone to overall bone strength has been difficult to date because of limitations in imaging technology.