Age-related trends in female stress urinary incontinence surgery in Australia - Medicare data for 1994-2009

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 543-549

  Lee, Joseph ^a   Dwyer, Peter L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

elderly women; midurethral sling; stress urinary incontinence; surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SUBURETHRAL SLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBURETHRAL SLINGS; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS;

EID: 78650088216     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2010.01217.x     Document Type: Article

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