Multicenter, 4-week, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of sodium picosulfate in patients with chronic constipation

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 897-903

  Mueller Lissner, Stefan ^a   Kamm, Michael A ^b,c   Wald, Arnold ^d   Hinkel, Ulrika ^e   Koehler, Ursula ^e   Richter, Erika ^e   Bubeck, Jürgen ^e  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISACODYL; PICOSULFATE SODIUM; PLACEBO;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC CONSTIPATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUPPOSITORY; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; CATHARTICS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PICOLINES; PLACEBOS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950519743     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2010.41     Document Type: Article

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