The need for manual evacuation and oral laxatives in the management of neurogenic bowel dysfunction after spinal cord injury: A randomized controlled trial of a stepwise protocol

Spinal Cord

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 504-510

  Coggrave, M J ^a,b   Norton, C ^b,c  

^a STOKE MANDEVILLE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bowel management; Manual evacuation; Neurogenic bowel dysfunction; Oral laxatives; Randomized controlled trial; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL; LAXATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOWEL MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANUAL REMOVAL OF FECES; NEUROGENIC BOWEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SUPPOSITORY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; LAXATIVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER, NEUROGENIC;

EID: 77953231535     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2009.166     Document Type: Article

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