Auricular Acupressure as a Treatment for Anxiety Before Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy in the Elderly

Journal of Urology

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 160-164

  Mora, Bruno ^a   Iannuzzi, Michele ^b   Lang, Thomas ^a   Steinlechner, Barbara ^a   Barker, Renate ^a   Dobrovits, Michael ^a   Wimmer, Christian ^a   Kober, Alexander ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

acupuncture; aged; aged, 80 and over; kidney calculi; ureteral calculi

Indexed keywords

ACUPRESSURE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT INDICATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ACUPRESSURE; ACUPUNCTURE, EAR; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URETERAL CALCULI;

EID: 34250217065     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2007.03.019     Document Type: Article

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