Correlations among measures of bladder function and comfort

Journal of Nursing Measurement

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 27-38

  Dowd, Thérèse ^a   Kolcaba, Katherine ^a   Steiner, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED STATES; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 0036514619     PISSN: 10613749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/jnum.10.1.27.52548     Document Type: Article

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