title: Assessing the severity of urinary incontinence in women by weighing perineal pads.
abstract: 50 women with normal urinary control and 100 women with urinary incontinence wore a series of preweighed sanitary towels for 1 h. The pads were weighed again after use. Mean pad weight increase was less than 1 g/h in normal women and 12.2 g/h in women with incontinence. In each case the pad-weighing test provided information about the severity and the pattern of incontinence which was not easy to obtain either from patient interview or from clinical examination.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000652:urine; D014556:Urine