The urinary incontinence score in the diagnosis of female urinary incontinence.
OBJECTIVE
Our purpose was to determine whether the urinary incontinence (UI) score is significantly useful in evaluating the clinical status of UI.


METHODS
The questionnaire was administered to 198 UI patients (27-73 years of age) diagnosed by conventional procedures. It consisted of 15 questions, and the answers were assigned points divided into a stress score (s-s) and urge score (u-s) according to severity.


RESULTS
The patients were classified into a stress incontinence group (SI; 125 cases), urge incontinence group (URI; 29 cases), mixed incontinence group (MI; 41 cases), and overflow incontinence group (3 cases). Classification by questionnaire yielded 110 SI cases, 31 URI cases, and 46 MI cases, accuracy of 83.2%, 86.2%, and 61.0%, respectively. A significant correlation was observed with s-s of SI (r = 0.669, P < 0.001) and u-s of URI (r = 0.583, P < 0.005).


CONCLUSIONS
The UI score will be a simple, clinically effective diagnostic procedure for UI for use by general gynecologists.
Ishiko
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Osaka City University Medical School, Japan. ishikoo@msic.med.osaka-cu.ac.jp
Hirai
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Sumi
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Nishimura
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Ogita
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014550:Urinary Incontinence, Stress / Q000175:diagnosis