Symptoms and Quality of Life in Community Women With Fecal Incontinence

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1004-1009

  Bharucha, Adil E ^a   Zinsmeister, Alan R ^b   Locke, G Richard ^a   Schleck, Cathy ^b   McKeon, Kimberly ^c   Melton, L Joseph ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^c OLMSTED MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTAL MAIL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33746340886     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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