Does Health-Related Quality of Life Improve in Women Following Gynaecological Surgery?

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1241-1247

  Reitsma, Michelle L ^a   Vandenkerkhof, Elizabeth G ^a   Johnston, Shawna L ^a   Hopman, Wilma M ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic postsurgical pain; Gynaecology; Health related quality of life; Normative data

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENORRHAGIA; METRORRHAGIA; NEOPLASM; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT FORM 36; TREATMENT INDICATION; URINE INCONTINENCE; UTERUS TUMOR; CANADA; HEALTH STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD;

ADULT; CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 84859729196     PISSN: 17012163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1701-2163(16)35109-X     Document Type: Article

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