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Table 4 Components included or excluded in validated pictorial methods to assess MBL

From: Pictorial methods to assess heavy menstrual bleeding in research and clinical practice: a systematic literature review

Reference

Component

Towels

Tampons

Clots

Flooding

Higham et al. (1990) [29]

✓

✓

✓

✓

Deeny et al. (1994) [30]

✓

✓

Not known

Not known

Janssen et al. (1995) [31]

✓

✓

✓

X

Barr et al. (1999) [32]

✓

X

✓

X

Reid et al. (2000) [33]

✓

✓

X

X

Wyatt et al. (2001) [34]

✓

✓

✓

✓

Zakherah et al. (2011) [35]

✓

X

X

X

Larsen et al. (2013) [36]

✓

✓

✓

X

Magnay et al. (2014) [5]

✓

X

X

X

  1. MBL menstrual blood loss