Bowel management in patients with spinal cord injury - A multicentre study of the German speaking society of paraplegia (DMGP)

Spinal Cord

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 724-730

  Haas, U ^a   Geng, V ^a   Evers, G C M ^b   Knecht, H ^a  

^a SWISS PARAPLEGIC RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b Private University   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bowel management; Manual removal of stool; Nursing interventions; Spinal cord injury; Unplanned bowel evacuation

Indexed keywords

LAXATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE FUNCTION DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; CATHARTICS; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 28744449596     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101795     Document Type: Article

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