Chronic Pelvic Pain

William Stones
In: Psychological Challenges in Obstetrics and Gynecology · 2007 · pp. 291–298 · doi:10.1007/978-1-84628-808-1_25 · W1494017342
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This chapter explores the prevalence, incidence, diagnostic patterns, and treatment outcomes of chronic pelvic pain in women within the context of general practice and specialist care.

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This paper is a 2007 book chapter overview of chronic pelvic pain, describing epidemiology, patterns of diagnosis and referral in women, associated quality-of-life and health-economic correlates, and discussion of categories such as gynacologic causes and interstitial cystitis. It synthesizes evidence from prior studies and systematic reviews, including national general practice database analyses, community prevalence work, and Cochrane review material, while also considering psychosocial factors and the influence of consultation context, with an explicit limitation being that it is a narrative chapter rather than an original empirical study. The chapter does not present new data and instead compiles findings across multiple settings and study types. Relevance to endometriosis: endometriosis is not explicitly discussed in the provided text excerpt, though the chapter is included in this corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index.

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