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Such an environment endangers patient safety, undermines physician empathy, hampers learning, lowers training satisfaction, and amplifies stress, fatigue, and burnout. On the other hand, functional hierarchies may improve resident education and well-being, as well as patient safety. Implications for practice Otolaryngology-head and neck surgery programs ought to work toward creating healthy systems of hierarchy that emphasize collaboration and improvement of workplace climate for trainees and faculty. The goal should be to identify aspects of dysfunctional hierarchy in one's own environment with the ambition of rebuilding a functional hierarchy where learning, personal health, and patient safety are optimized.Objectives This study examined whether older patients' greater daily pain perceived by their spouses was associated with spouses' higher daily negative affect. We further investigated whether spouses' lower confidence in patients' ability to manage pain exacerbated the daily association between perceived patient pain and spouses' negative affect. Method We used baseline interviews and a 22-day diary of knee osteoarthritis patients and their spouses (N = 144 couples). Multilevel models were estimated to test hypotheses. Results Daily perceived patient pain was not associated with spouses' daily negative affect. However, spouse confidence significantly moderated the association. Only spouses with lower confidence in patients' pain management experienced higher negative affect on days when they perceived that patients' level of pain was higher than usual. Discussion Findings suggest that spousal caregivers' lack of confidence in patients' pain management may be a risk factor for spouses' affective distress in daily life.Sacral stress fractures are rare injuries among professional and amateur athletes and are considered to be an uncommon source of low back pain. These type of fractures are mainly seen in competitive, high-impact sports, most commonly in long-distance runners. Sacral stress fractures are usually overlooked in young patients presenting with low back pain without any trauma history. Diagnosis of sacral stress fractures is often delayed because the history and physical examination of these patients are not specific and conventional radiographic images are frequently inadequate. A high index of clinical suspicion and further radiologic imaging such as MRI utilization can provide the accurate diagnosis. The treatment mainly includes rest, pain control, nutritional support, and biomechanical optimization. Herein, we report the case of a woman amateur golf player with a sacral stress fracture who complained of aggravating low back pain. To the best of our knowledge, this appears to be the first report of a sacral stress fracture in a golf player and also the first case of this pathology in low-impact sports. Therefore, physicians should keep in mind that stress fractures can also be seen in low-impact sports. We recommend considering stress fractures in the differential diagnosis of non-traumatic, aggravating low back pain in golfers.Aim To investigate the relationship between spatiotemporal gait variability and falls self-efficacy after chronic stroke while taking into account the effect of some known potential confounders including fall numbers and gait velocity. Methods Participants (n = 62) walked at their preferred speed to calculate gait variability for stride time, stride length, swing time, and double-support percent. The Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I) assessed falls self-efficacy. The linear regression tests were used for statistical analysis. Age, sex, time since stroke, paretic side, motor impairments, fall numbers, and gait velocity were considered as independent variables. Results Increased FES-I score was related to higher stride time variability (R 2 = 0.65, F(8,53) = 15.44, P .05). Conclusion The results indicate that increased FES-I score may be related to increased stride variability post stroke.The presence of metal contaminants in agricultural soils and subsequent uptake by food crops can pose serious human health risk. In this study, we assessed the levels of toxic metals - arsenic, chromium, copper, iron, manganese, nickel, and zinc - in soils and some edible root tuber crops from two gold mining and two non-mining communities in Ghana to evaluate the potential human health risks associated with exposure to these metals. Concentrations of the metals in 154 soil and edible root tuber samples were analyzed using field portable x-ray fluorescence spectrometer prior to confirmation by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Bioaccessibility of the metals was determined using an in vitro physiologically based extraction technique. Concentrations of the metals were generally higher in the gold mining communities than in the non-mining communities. The contamination indices indicated low to moderate contamination of the soil and food crops. Bioaccessibility for the metals varied from 1.7% (Fe) to 62.3 (Mn). Overall, the risks posed by the metals upon consumption of the tubers were low.Objective The primary objective of this study was to ascertain if among women with fetal growth restriction (FGR; estimated fetal weight [EFW] less then 10th percentile) the frequency of severe FGR (sFGR; EFW less then 3rd percentile for gestational age) differed among various classes of obesity.Study design This was a retrospective cohort study of all pregnancies complicated by FGR from August 2016- March 2019 at a single center, undergoing weekly antenatal surveillance (biophysical profiles and umbilical artery Doppler). FKBP inhibitor Exclusion criteria included multiple gestation, prenatally diagnosed fetal anomalies, and unknown maternal body mass index (BMI) at the time of the ultrasound exam. We defined fetal growth restriction as an estimated fetal weight less than the 10th percentile for gestational age using Hadlock criteria. Severe FGR was defined as the estimated fetal weight below 3rd percentile for gestational age. Maternal BMI was categorized as non-obese (BMI ≤ 29.9), Class I obesity (30.0-34.9), and Class II or III obesity (≥35.