Urology
Volume 72, Issue 4 , Pages 736-742 , October 2008

Content Validation of Symptom-Specific Nocturia Quality-of-Life Instrument Developed in Men: Issues Expressed by Women, as Well as Men

  • Lauren L. Mock

      Affiliations

    • Birmingham/Atlanta Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Atlanta, Georgia
    • ,
  • Patricia A. Parmelee

      Affiliations

    • Birmingham/Atlanta Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Atlanta, Georgia
    • Emory Center for Health in Aging, Atlanta, Georgia
    • Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology and Wesley Woods Center of Emory University, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
    • Health Services Research and Development, Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Atlanta, Georgia
    • ,
  • Nancy Kutner

      Affiliations

    • Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology and Wesley Woods Center of Emory University, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
    • Center for Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
    • ,
  • Jane Scott

      Affiliations

    • Mapi Values, Boston, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • Theodore M. Johnson II

      Affiliations

    • Birmingham/Atlanta Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Atlanta, Georgia
    • Emory Center for Health in Aging, Atlanta, Georgia
    • Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology and Wesley Woods Center of Emory University, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Theodore M. Johnson, II, M.D., M.P.H., Birmingham/Atlanta Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, 508/11B, Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 1670 Clairmont Road, Decatur, GA 30033

Received 18 December 2007 ,Accepted 12 April 2008.

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 This investigation was supported by grants from the Health Economics and Outcomes Research Division of Aventis Pharmaceuticals to Piedmont Research Institute, Chapel Hill, North Caroline; and the Atlanta Research and Education Foundation, Decatur, Georgia.

 Sanofi-Aventis reviewed the manuscript before submission, as specified in the contract arrangement, but offered no editorial comments.

 Portions of this work constituted the Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Sociology at Emory University for L. L. Mock.

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doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2008.04.014

Urology
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