Nothing is so clear any more, except that, in this general aftermath, which is very strange and as ordinary as anything, pop music bubbles and pours and glints all around us, fabricating its festive imagination as brilliantly as ever, still able to help us work out amidst unnerving tensions and miscellaneous growing pains what we think, and what we believe in.
Pain quality was measured by means of the MPQ, a validated questionnaire comprising 78 descriptor words arranged into 20 subgroups and measuring the sensory, affective, evaluative, and miscellaneous components of pain [ 6].
Subscale 1 'Pain expression' - miscellaneous behaviors, reaction to palpation of the surgical wound, reaction to palpation of the abdomen/flank and vocalization.
Breast-related symptoms were reported in an open-ended format that was further categorized into pain, swelling, numbness, and miscellaneous symptoms.
This questionnaire contains 25 items, divided into five groups (function, pain, psychological factors, fear-avoidance, and miscellaneous), 21 of which are scored on a 0-10 scale.
The first component involves descriptors of pain categorised as sensory, affective, evaluative and miscellaneous.
Among many irresistible offerings are sticky buns, bread pudding, croissants, monkey bread, pain au chocolat, pecan squares, citrus bars, and miscellaneous cakes and tarts (from $1.75 to $4.25).
Seven words are chosen from categories of pain description, pain components, evaluation of pain, and a miscellaneous descriptor category.
The major categories and their proportions were: pain 32.3%, injury 26.6%, infection 15%, psychiatric 8.1%, miscellaneous 6.1%, nurse only visit 5.5%, eye 4.3% and rash 2.2%.
In the July data set, 493 CCs were placed into 8 categories which captured 96.3% of CCs: pain 32.3%, injury 26.6%, infection 15%, psychiatric 8.1%, miscellaneous 6.1% (those with a frequency of ≤ 2%), nurse only visit 5.5%, eye 4.3% and rash 2.2%.
