Chronic pelvic pain and menorrhagia: Assessing treatment effectiveness

Thesis

Front cover

Title pages

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Chronic pelvic pain in women

Chapter 3: Laparoscopic uterine nerve ablation: A survey of gynaecological practice in the UK

Chapter 4: Study protocol - A randomised controlled trial to assess the efficacy of laparoscopic uterosacral nerve ablation (LUNA) in the treatment of chronic pelvic pain: The trial protocol ISRCTN41196151

Chapter 5: Laparoscopic uterosacral nerve ablation (LUNA) for alleviating chronic pelvic pain: A randomized trial

Chapter 6: Meta-analysis using individual patient data from randomised trials to assess the effectiveness of laparoscopic uterosacral nerve ablation in the treatment of chronic pelvic pain: A proposed protocol

Chapter 7: Individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised evidence to assess the effectiveness of laparoscopic uterosacral nerve ablation in chronic pelvic pain

Chapter 8: Psychological therapies for chronic pelvic pain: Systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Chapter 9: Hysterectomy, endometrial destruction and Mirena® for heavy menstrual bleeding: A systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis

Chapter 10: Second generation endometrial ablation techniques for heavy menstrual bleeding: Network meta-analysis

Chapter 11: The measurement properties of the menorrhagia multi-attribute quality-of-life scale: A psychometric analysis

Chapter 12: Summary and discussion

Samenvatting

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Authors’ affiliations

Dankwoord (Acknowledgements)

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