Assessment of Periodic Blood Loss: Interindividual and Intraindividual Variations of Pictorial Blood Loss Assessment Chart Registrations

Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 662-668

  Hald, Kirsten ^a   Lieng, Marit ^a,b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Measurement; Menorrhagia; Menstrual blood loss; Pictorial Blood Loss Assessment Chart

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LEIOMYOMA; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PICTORIAL BLOOD LOSS ASSESSMENT CHART; POLYP; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SANITARY PAD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; COMPLICATION; INDIVIDUALITY; MENORRHAGIA; MIDDLE AGED; POLYPS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LEIOMYOMA; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUATION; MIDDLE AGED; POLYPS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERINE DISEASES; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84904293957     PISSN: 15534650     EISSN: 15534669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2014.01.015     Document Type: Article

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