Defining success after surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A consensus standardized definition of success after stress urinary incontinence surgical treatment is lacking, which precludes comparisons between studies and affects patient counseling.

Objective

This study aimed to identify optimal patient-centric definition(s) of success after stress urinary incontinence surgical treatment and to compare the identified "more accurate" treatment success definitions with a commonly used composite definition of success (ie, no reported urine leakage, negative cough stress test result, and no retreatment).

Study design

We evaluated 51 distinct treatment success definitions for participants enrolled in a previously conducted randomized trial of stress urinary incontinence treatments concomitantly performed with sacrocolpopex

SUBMITTER: Raju R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11283962 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature