Outpatient Evaluation and Management Visits for Urinary Incontinence in Older Women.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The aims of this investigation were to examine how often outpatient visits addressing urinary incontinence in women with self-reported incontinence symptoms occur and to explore characteristics associated with an outpatient visit for incontinence.

Materials and methods

We studied the records of 18,576 women from the Nurses' Health Study who were 65 years old or older, reported prevalent incontinence symptoms in 2012 on a mailed questionnaire and were linked with Medicare utilization data. We compared demographic, personal and clinical characteristics in women with and without claims for outpatient visits for urinary incontinence. In logistic regression models we controlled for potential confounding factors, including age, race, parity, body mass index, medical comorb

SUBMITTER: Erekson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7372503 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature