Urology
Volume 74, Issue 5 , Pages 983-987.e3 , November 2009

Validation of a Modified National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index to Assess Genitourinary Pain in Both Men and Women

  • J. Quentin Clemens

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: J. Quentin Clemens, M.D., M.S.C.I., Department of Urology, University of Michigan Medical Center, 1500 E Medical Center Drive, Taubman Center 3875, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5330
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  • Elizabeth A. Calhoun

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, Chicago, IL
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  • Mark S. Litwin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, UCLA School of Medicine and Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
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  • Mary McNaughton-Collins

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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  • John W. Kusek

      Affiliations

    • National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD
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  • Evelyn M. Crowley

      Affiliations

    • Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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  • J. Richard Landis

      Affiliations

    • Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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  • Urologic Pelvic Pain Collaborative Research Network

Received 4 May 2009 ,Accepted 16 June 2009.

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 This study was supported by grant number NIDDK 5U01DK065257.

PII: S0090-4295(09)02200-6

doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.06.078

Urology
Volume 74, Issue 5 , Pages 983-987.e3 , November 2009

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