Clinical testing for overactive bladder
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To the Editor: Janos et al. (1) argued in a recent editorial that multiple cognitive tests should be administered to assess the effects of overactive bladder (OAB) treatment on cognition, and criticised a recent study we conducted (2) for relying on a single measure, the Name-Face Association Test (NFA; 3). In fact, we measured multiple cognitive domains using tests from two state-of-the-art co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Urological Association Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1911-6470,1920-1214
DOI: 10.5489/cuaj.11184