Urge incontinence: The patient's perspective

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1263-1269

  Brown, Jeanette S ^a,b   Subak, Leslee L ^a   Gras, Joanne ^a   Brown, Beth A ^a   Kuppermann, Miriam ^a   Posner, Samuel F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOCTURIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF ESTEEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SLEEP DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URGE INCONTINENCE; WELLBEING;

EID: 0032457681     PISSN: 10597115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.1998.7.1263     Document Type: Article

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