Women's Health Issues
Volume 14, Issue 6 , Pages 242-247 , November 2004

Validating a pencil-and-paper measure of perimenopausal menstrual blood loss

  • Phyllis Kernoff Mansfield, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Phyllis Kernoff Mansfield, PhD, 102 Willard Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.
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  • Ann Voda, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
    • ,
  • Gary Allison, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Received 2 February 2004 ,Revised 28 June 2004 ,Accepted 6 July 2004.

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PII: S1049-3867(04)00072-6

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2004.07.005

Women's Health Issues
Volume 14, Issue 6 , Pages 242-247 , November 2004

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