Epidemiology is the basic science underpinning public health and clinical medicine. It describes the occurrence of health-related states or events (incidence, prevalence), quantifies the risk of disease (relative risk) and its outcome (prognosis, survival, mortality), and postulates causal mechanisms for disease in populations (aetiology, prevention). The main function of epidemiology is to pro...

Objective: To audit indications, histopathological diagnosis and complications of gynaecological hysterectomies performed at Social Security Hospital, Lahore. Study design: Retrospective study Place and duration of study: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Social Security Hospital,Lahore from 1 st January to 31 st December,2010. Methodology: Data regarding patient characteristics, indica...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of gynaecological factors leading to chronic pelvic pain via diagnostic laparoscopy. To see the association of these factors with demographic variables of the patients. METHODS Fifty patients underwent the study over a period of 1.5 years from 1st January 2007 to 30th June 2008 at the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Ce...