Rating improvements in urinary incontinence: Do patients and their physicians agree?

Age and Ageing

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 379-383

  Tannenbaum, Cara ^a,b   Brouillette, Judith ^b   Corcos, Jacques ^c  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavioural interventions; Elderly; Outcome measures; Urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; RATING SCALE; STRESS INCONTINENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS;

EID: 47049091953     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afn108     Document Type: Article

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