Estimation of menstrual blood loss volume based on menstrual diary and laboratory data

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Schumacher, Ulrike ^a,b   Schumacher, Jens ^c   Mellinger, Uwe ^a   Gerlinger, Christoph ^a   Wienke, Andreas ^d   Endrikat, Jan ^a,e  

^a BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITÄT HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^e SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VOLUME; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOLOGY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; BLOOD VOLUME; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUAL HYGIENE PRODUCTS; MENSTRUATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865060944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-12-24     Document Type: Article

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