Health-related quality of life among adults with symptoms of overactive bladder: Results from a U.S. community-based survey

Urology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1044-1050

  Liberman, Joshua N ^a   Hunt, Timothy L ^b   Stewart, Walter F ^a,c   Wein, Alan ^d   Zhou, Zhiyuan ^b   Herzog, A Regula ^e   Lipton, Richard B ^a,f   Diokno, Ananias C ^g  

^a Innovative Medical Research   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f Departments of Neurology   (United States)

^g WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL CARE; MENTAL HEALTH; MICTURITION DISORDER; PAIN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; URGE INCONTINENCE;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 0035019377     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(01)00986-4     Document Type: Article

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