Variation in surgical treatment advice for women with stress urinary incontinence: a study using clinical case vignettes.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The aim of this study was to determine how recommendations of gynaecologists on surgical treatment for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) were influenced by patient characteristics.

Methods

Two hundred forty-five gynaecologists in the UK fully responded to an online questionnaire including 18 vignettes describing 7 clinical characteristics of women with SUI (age, body mass index, SUI type, previous SUI surgery, frequency of leakage, bother, physical status). The gynaecologists scored recommendations for surgery ranging from 1 'certainly not' to 5 'certainly yes'. Mean scores were used to calculate the relative impact ('weight') of each clinical characteristic. Latent class analysis was used to distinguish groups of gynaecologists with a particular practice style

SUBMITTER: Mamza JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7270981 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature