At present, there is no consensus on the best way to define treatment success in the context of stress urinary incontinence (SUI).
There is, however, a recognition that it is important to include patient-reported outcomes among the core assessments. Going forward, there is a need to unite outcome reporting tools to be able to compare data across studies and perform meaningful meta-analyses.
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Zimmern PE. Are you the author?
Professor of Urology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and Director of the Bladder and Incontinence Treatment Center, Dallas, TX.
Reference: Can Urol Assoc J. 2012 Oct;6(5 Suppl 2):S127-8.
doi: 10.5489/cuaj.12199
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 23092774
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