Recent years have witnessed substantially increased research regarding sex differences in
pain. The expansive body of literature in this area clearly suggests that men and women …

Sex-related influences on pain and analgesia have become a topic of tremendous scientific
and clinical interest, especially in the last 10 to 15 years. Members of our research group …

We developed and validated a prediction rule for the occurrence of early postoperative
severe pain in surgical inpatients, using predictors that can be easily documented in a …

Methods The term 'chronic post-herniorrhaphy pain'has a wide variety of interpretations in
the literature. The International Association for the Study of Pain has defined chronic pain as …

Objective This study sought to determine the effects of lavender aromatherapy on pain
following needle insertion into a fistula in patients undergoing hemodialysis. Method This is …

Background Pain following thoracotomy can persist for years with an undetermined impact
on quality of life. Factors hypothesized to modulate this painful experience include analgesic …

Object Opioid administration after major intracranial surgery is often limited by a presumed
lack of need and a concern that opioids will adversely affect the postoperative neurological …

Objectives Postoperative pain is characterized by a wide variability of patients' pain
perception and analgesic requirement. The study investigated the extent to which …

Background Numerous studies have shown that women emerge faster from general
anaesthesia than men, and differ in their postoperative recovery profile. The extent and …

A gender difference in the incidence of acute pain may be a confounder in analgesic trials.
We have tested the hypothesis that the incidence of acute pain after knee arthroscopic …