What is it about?
Pain during menstrual vaginal bleeding is not enought to diagnose dysmenorrhea, a common feature relate with gynecologic disease; a multidimensional scale it was needed to identify women with this condition, that tool is WaLIDD Store.
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Why is it important?
To help the doctors in the assesssment and initial approach of dysmenorrhea.
Perspectives
We can think that this tool could help to clinicians in emergency room or with outpatients, to identify patients with gynecological diseases. Our next purpose it is to validated this tool in general population (not universitary) or patients attended in emergency room.
Aníbal Teherán
Fundacion Universitaria Juan N Corpas
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This page is a summary of: WaLIDD score, a new tool to diagnose dysmenorrhea and predict medical leave in university students, International Journal of Women s Health, January 2018, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/ijwh.s143510.
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