Factors impacting quality of life in women with fecal incontinence

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1148-1154

  Markland, Alayne D ^a,b   Greer, W Jerod ^c   Vogt, Alicia ^c   Redden, David T ^a,d   Goode, Patricia S ^a,b   Burgio, Kathryn L ^a,b   Richter, Holly E ^c  

^a BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Bowel symptoms; Fecal incontinence; Quality of life; Urinary incontinence; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTESTINE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; URINE INCONTINENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEFECATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEFECATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956206877     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181d5da6c     Document Type: Article

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