Overactive bladder: Symptom complex or separate entity?
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Symptom assessment tool for overactive bladder syndrome--overactive bladder symptom score.
OBJECTIVES Overactive bladder (OAB) is a common symptom syndrome with urgency, urinary frequency, and urgency incontinence. To collectively express OAB symptoms, we developed the overactive bladder symptom score (OABSS). METHODS Four symptoms--daytime frequency, nighttime frequency, urgency, and urgency incontinence--were scored. The weighing score was based on a secondary analysis of an epid...
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Overactive bladder (OAB) is common and has a negative impact on a patient's quality of life. It is important for physicians to know how to identify and manage patients with this condition. Usually only basic clinical evaluations and a good patient history are necessary to diagnose OAB. Effective and safe oral therapy is available and can be initiated by primary care physicians.
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Urological Association Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1920-1214
DOI: 10.5489/cuaj.717