Do prostate size and urinary flow rates predict health care-seeking behavior for urinary symptoms in men?

Urology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 64-69

  Jacobsen, Steven J ^a,b   Girman, Cynthia J ^a,b   Guess, Harry A ^a,b   Panser, Laurel A ^a,b   Chute, Christopher G ^a,b   Oesterling, Joseph E ^a,b   Lieber, Michael M ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ECHOGRAPHY; FINGER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATISM; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; URINE FLOW RATE;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MINNESOTA; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 0028846983     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(95)96766-4     Document Type: Article

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