Estimating the prevalence of urinary and fecal incontinence in a nationally representative survey in Sierra Leone

Hiten D. Patel; Thaim B. Kamara; Adam L. Kushner; Reinou S. Groen

doi:10.1016/j.ijgo.2014.03.017

Estimating the prevalence of urinary and fecal incontinence in a nationally representative survey in Sierra Leone

Hiten D. Patel, Thaim B. Kamara, Adam L. Kushner, Reinou S. Groen^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	175-176
Number of pages	2
Journal	International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Volume	126
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgo.2014.03.017
State	Published - 2014

Funding

A donation from the Thompson Family Foundation provided funding for logistics through Surgeons OverSeas. HDP was supported by the Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program and the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) , which is funded in part by Grant Number UL1 TR 000424-06 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of the Johns Hopkins ICTR, NCATS, or NIH.

Keywords

Access to care
Fecal incontinence
Fistula
Sierra Leone
Surgical Care
Survey
Urinary incontinence
Women's Health

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Obstetrics and Gynecology

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