Patient satisfaction with hysterectomy


        PATIENT SATISFACTION WITH HYSTERECTOMY
The Maine Women's Health Study, one of the largest studies to date that has followed women through treatment for problems like heavy bleeding and chronic pelvic pain, presents a unique opportunity to compare hysterectomy with non-surgical therapies. In one part of the study over 350 women from the State of Maine, in the north-eastern United States, who had a hysterectomy were interviewed at the time of surgery and then three, six and twelve months later. Most had been diagnosed as having fibroids, abnormal bleeding, chronic pelvic pain, endometriosis, a cancer, or prolapse. The peak age for hysterectomy in this group of mainly White women was the early forties. Another study was conducted at the same time for comparative purposes; it involved nearly 400 Maine women who had non-surgical treatment for fibroids, chronic pelvic pain and abnormal bleeding.3 In general, the women who had hysterectomies had more severe symptoms than the non-surgical treatment group and their activities were more limited as a result.

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