Interventions for preventing postpartum constipation

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Turawa, Eunice B ^a   Musekiwa, Alfred ^a   Rohwer, Anke C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENEMA; LAXATIVE; PLACEBO;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUPUNCTURE; ADVERSE EVENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DIARRHEA; FECES; FECES INCONTINENCE; FLATULENCE; HUMAN; MATERNAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85042000836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011625     Document Type: Article

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