The international prostate symptom score: Physician versus self-administration in the quantification of symptomatology

Urology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 326-328

  Plante, M ^a   Corcos, J ^a   Gregoire, I ^a   Belanger, M F ^a   Brock, G ^a   Rossingol, M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIANS; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0029876010     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(99)80447-6     Document Type: Article

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