Urinary incontinence evaluation and the utility of pessaries in older women

Care Management Journals

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 213-217

  Roehl, Barbara ^a   Buchanan, Edward M ^b  

^a Underwood Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Incontinence; Pelvic organ prolapse; Pessary

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

AGING; ANAMNESIS; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONSTIPATION; CYSTOCELE; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MIXED INCONTINENCE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBESITY; PARITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTOCELE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; STRESS INCONTINENCE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA OBSTRUCTION; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINALYSIS; URINE INCONTINENCE; URINE RETENTION; UTERUS PROLAPSE; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINA PESSARY; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PESSARIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; URINARY INCONTINENCE; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 33845708057     PISSN: 15210987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/cmj-v7i4a007     Document Type: Review

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