Exclusion of elderly women from published randomized trials of stress incontinence surgery

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 498-503

  Morse, Abraham N ^a   Labin, Lisa C ^a   Young, Stephen B ^a   Aronson, Michael P ^a   Gurwitz, Jerry H ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULKING AGENT;

AGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SELECTION BIAS; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS;

EID: 16244409797     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000136484.37027.79     Document Type: Review

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