A new portable measuring cup for voided volume.
When recording daily urine volumes for the frequency-volume chart, a patient must measure voided urine volume throughout the whole day. Unless the patient stays at home, the conventional 500-mL paper or plastic cup must be carried with at all times, which can be very embarrassing and troublesome for the patient, so a collapsible, portable measuring cup has been developed. To determine the measuring accuracy of the new cup, the visual estimate was compared with the actual volume. The cup was found to be a highly accurate and useful container for measuring voided urine volume.
Yamada
M
M
Pharmaceutical Department, Meiji Milk Products, Tokyo, Japan. massashiy@mx5.mesh.ne.jp
Tanaka
K
K
Yamaguchi
O
O
Kawabe
K
K
D004326:Drinking; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014556:Urine; D014894:Weights and Measures