Advancing Evidence-Based Nursing: The Updated German Expert Standard on Continence Promotion.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Incontinence is a widespread and socially taboo phenomenon worldwide. Incontinence, with its various manifestations, is one of the most common illnesses in outpatient medical care and represents a serious health problem for those affected of all ages. As part of the second update of the German expert standard published in 2024 on continence promotion, a systematic literature review was conducted to identify, appraise, and synthesize current evidence on nursing interventions to promote urinary and fecal continence. The expert standard does not provide a gradation of recommendations, but rather that the criteria depicted in the standard have the highest possible recommendation character in the sense of the best available knowledge. The aim of this article is to present the

SUBMITTER: Pohner J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12609654 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature