Loss to follow-up in a longitudinal study on urogenital tract symptoms in Dutch older men

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 30-37

  Blanker, Marco H ^a,b   Prins, Jennie ^a   Bosch, J L H Ruud ^a   Scheuten, Boris W V ^a   Bernsen, Roos M D ^a   Groeneveld, Frans P M J ^a   Bohnen, Arthur M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cohort studies, urogenital tract symptoms; Health status, Dutch older males; Older males, urogenital tract symptoms; Urological male genital diseases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 22544451239     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000085924     Document Type: Article

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