Costs of female urinary incontinence

Women's Health Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3-5

  Cortes, Eduardo ^a   Kelleher, Con ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

direct cost; indirect cost; Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY); urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248203661     PISSN: 17441870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1383/wohm.2005.2.6.3     Document Type: Article

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