title: Urge incontinence history is an accurate predictor of urge incontinence.
abstract: The reliability of urge symptoms associated with actual observed urine loss was tested using subtracted cystometry, and a hand-washing pad test in a total of 169 patients with urinary incontinence, 70 of whom had a prior history of urge incontinence. Our results showed: 1. that urodynamic or pad tests performed at a single point in time cannot retrospectively confirm a patient's past history of urge incontinence with any reliability; 2. a patient's history of urge incontinence is likely to be accurate.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology, Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia.
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Petros
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ulmsten
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*