The responsiveness of the uterine fibroid symptom and health-related quality of life questionnaire (UFS-QOL)

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Harding, Gale ^a   Coyne, Karin S ^a   Thompson, Christine L ^a   Spies, James B ^b  

^a UNITED BIOSOURCE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EFFECT SIZE; ENDOMETRIUM ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POST HOC ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SHORT FORM 36; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THERMAL ABLATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UTERUS MYOMA; ADOLESCENT; HOSPITALIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; UTERUS CANCER; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ENDOMETRIAL ABLATION TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58049134745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-6-99     Document Type: Article

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