Pad weighing test--a simple method to quantitate urinary incontinence.
This paper reviews the litterature on pad weighing tests designed to measure urinary incontinence. These can be divided into short-term (one to two hours), as suggested by the International Continence Society, or long-term (12 to 48 hours). Apart from practical disadvantages the short-term tests have a low sensitivity and require retrograde filling of the bladder to reach acceptable reproducibility. The long-term tests have practical advantages, better sensitivity and acceptable reproducibility. The validity of the long-term test as a measure of the symptom of incontinence is evident, whereas it is unclear what the short term test measures. An evaluation of the value of pad-weighing tests in different kinds of incontinence is lacking.
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Uppsala University, Akademiska Sjukhuset, Sweden.
D003020:Clothing; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000652:urine*