Peeing barbed wire: Symptom experiences in women with lower urinary tract infection

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-53

  Malterud, Kirsti ^a   Bærheim, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Explanatory models; Language; Lower urinary tract infection; Symptom experience; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYSTITIS; DISEASE DURATION; DYSURIA; FEMALE; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTURIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORWAY; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYSTITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PAIN; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0032899319     PISSN: 02813432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/028134399750002908     Document Type: Article

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