Nocturnal enuresis in adolescents and adults is associated with childhood elimination symptomsW F Bower
Division of Paediatric Surgery and Paediatric Urology, Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
J Urol 176:1771-5. 2006
..Since nocturnal enuresis in adults and adolescents is rarely monosymptomatic, we identified the prevalence of childhood bladder and bowel dysfunction, and compared findings to those in a normative cohort...
Acupuncture as a treatment for nocturnal enuresisW F Bower
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Auton Neurosci 157:63-7. 2010
..Acupuncture as a monotherapy for the treatment of NE appears to be less effective than acupuncture given as part of a combined Traditional Chinese Medicine approach. Electroacupuncture enhances treatment outcomes...
- Quality of life in head and neck cancer patients after surgical resection: translation into Cantonese and validation of the EORTC QLQ-H&N35
W F Bower
Department of Surgery, 4th Floor Clinical Sciences Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
Acta Otolaryngol 129:779-85. 2009
..High convergent and discriminant validity between subscales was achieved after the translation of EORTC QLQ-H&N35 into Cantonese. Most subscales were assessing distinct components of quality of life (QoL)...
- Dysfunctional elimination symptoms in childhood and adulthood
W F Bower
Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
J Urol 174:1623-7; discussion 1627-8. 2005
..The dysfunctional elimination syndrome (DES) is rare in adulthood. We evaluate the natural history of DES to identify aspects of the disorder that may be carried into adulthood...
- Peri-operative blood transfusion increases length of hospital stay and number of postoperative complications in non-cardiac surgical patients
W F Bower
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Med J 16:116-20. 2010
..To test the hypothesis that blood transfusion alone was a significant risk factor for in-hospital morbidity in non-cardiac patients...
- Variability in normative urine flow rates
W F Bower
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong, SAR China
J Urol 171:2657-9. 2004
..Since current nomograms have been constructed from 1 to 2 voids per child, variability of flow parameters is unknown. We evaluate intraindividual variability of flow parameters in children free of lower urinary tract symptoms...
- Development of a validated quality of life tool specific to children with bladder dysfunction
W F Bower
Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Neurourol Urodyn 25:221-7. 2006
..The aim of this research was to create a cross-cultural tool to assess and measure the wider psychosocial impact of current and new interventions for bladder dysfunction in children...
- Contributors to surgical in-patient satisfaction--development and reliability of a targeted instrument
C S K Cheung
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Hong Kong
Asian J Surg 32:143-50. 2009
..There are few validated instruments to measure surgical patients satisfaction. The aim of this study was to develop a culturally-specific patient satisfaction instrument, for use as an outcome measure in evaluating surgical services...
