A clinician's guide to patient selection for watchful waiting management of inguinal hernia

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 253, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 605-610

  Sarosi Jr , George A ^a   Wei, Yongliang ^b   Gibbs, James O ^c   Reda, Domenic J ^b   McCarthy Jr , Martin ^d   Fitzgibbons, Robert J ^e   Barkun, Jeffrey S T ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Institute for Healthcare Studies   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATISM; RISK REDUCTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WATCHFUL WAITING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PROBABILITY; PROSTATISM; WATCHFUL WAITING;

EID: 79951674153     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31820b04e9     Document Type: Article

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