title: Overactive Bladder and Continence Guidelines: implementation, inaction or frustration?
abstract: Guidelines for the management of continence and overactive bladder are generally available across Europe. For a majority of countries, these have been adopted by professional societies in either urology or gynaecology for local use. There has, however, been little monitoring of formal implementation of these guidelines and seldom any attempt to audit their operation. The state of continence care therefore remains largely unknown. This article reviews current guidelines and their status across Europe and examines what might be relevant from other disease areas to promote successful implementation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geriatric Medicine, University College Hospital, London, UK. a.wagg@ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wagg
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cardozo
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chapple
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Diaz
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: de Ridder
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Espuna-Pons
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Haab
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kelleher
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kolbl
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Milsom
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Van Kerrebroeck
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vierhout
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kirby
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006284:Health Plan Implementation; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D053201:Urinary Bladder, Overactive / Q000628:therapy*; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000628:therapy*