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What’s a ‘cure’? Patient-centred outcomes of treatments for stress urinary incontinence

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This paper is based on a lecture written by the author and presented at Eli Lilly/Boehringer Ingelheim-sponsored symposia at the IUGA annual meetings 2004 and 2005. The author is a member of an Advisory Board for Eli Lilly/Boehringer Ingelheim for the drug duloxetine. He has received funding which helps provide for non-commercial research in his unit.

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Freeman, R.M. What’s a ‘cure’? Patient-centred outcomes of treatments for stress urinary incontinence. Int Urogynecol J 18, 13–18 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00192-006-0110-1

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