Innie Chen

Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) severely impacts quality of life, presenting distinct perioperative management challenges. Patients face heightened anxiety, severe postoperative pain, prolonged recovery from fear of movement, and persistent pain …

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis affects approximately 10% of women of reproductive age worldwide. Emerging evidence suggests a link between dietary antioxidants and endometriosis risk, prompting interest in measures like the Composite Dietary Ant…

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a hormone-sensitive inflammatory condition affecting between 5% and 10% of reproductive-aged women and an unknown number of gender-diverse individuals. It is often associated with debilitating pelvic pain sympto…

OBJECTIVE: To provide evidence-based recommendations for the management of chronic pelvic pain in females. TARGET POPULATION: This guideline is specific to pelvic pain in adolescent and adult females and excluded literature that looked at …

OBJECTIVE: To describe the patterns of health care utilization among patients with chronic pelvic pain. METHODS: Deidentified administrative claims data from the OptumLabs Data Warehouse were used. Adult female patients who had their first…

BACKGROUND: Dysmenorrhoea (painful menstrual cramps) is common and a major cause of pain in women. Combined oral contraceptives (OCPs) are often used in the management of primary dysmenorrhoea, but there is a need for reporting the benefits…

We investigated the validity of the 10th Revision Canadian modification of International Statistical Classification of Disease and Related Health Problems (ICD-10-CA) diagnostic codes for surgery for benign gynaecologic conditions in the Ca…

OBJECTIVE: The Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) is the main source of routinely collected data for gynaecologic surgery in Canada and is increasingly used for research. These data are prone t…

OBJECTIVE: To identify pre-operative and intraoperative factors associated with the risk of red blood cell transfusion among women undergoing hysterectomy. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study of hysterectomy for benign indications betwee…

OBJECTIVE: To systematically summarize the evidence on costs related to chronic pelvic pain (CPP) for women. DATA SOURCES: Electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubMed, and Cochrane Library) were searched for English and French articles p…

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the validity of laparoscopic visualization for the diagnosis of endometriosis compared with histopathology. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective chart review at a tertiary care hospital in Canada fo…

Objective: The aim of this research was to assess outcomes of concurrent prophylactic mastectomy and oophorectomy, compared to prophylactic mastectomy and hysterectomy, in patients with hereditary breast and gynecologic cancers. Materials a…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate risk factors associated with urologic injury in women undergoing hysterectomy for benign indication. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study for the period of 2011-2018 was conducted using the American College of Su…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: The objective of our study was to provide a contemporary description of hysterectomy practice and temporal trends in Canada. DESIGN: A national whole-population retrospective analysis of data from the Canadian Institute fo…

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a common gynaecological condition affecting 10% to 15% of reproductive-age women and may cause dyspareunia, dysmenorrhoea, and infertility. One treatment strategy is combining surgery and medical therapy to redu…

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the incidence and risk factors for bowel injury in women undergoing hysterectomy for benign indications. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was conducted among women undergoing hysterectomy for benign indications …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To describe the hospital-associated cost of endometriosis in Canada from April 2008 to March 2013. DESIGN: Population-based descriptive study. SETTING: Canada, with the exception of the province of Quebec. PATIENTS: All …

Objective: To assess the safety and efficacy of ilioinguinal/iliohypogastric nerve blocks for patients with lower abdominal wall pain in a gynaecology setting. Methods: A retrospective chart review of 131 patients who received ilioinguinal/…