Primary care diagnostic and treatment pathways in Dutch women with urinary incontinence.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate how GPs manage women with urinary incontinence (UI) in the Netherlands and to assess whether this is in line with the relevant Dutch GP guideline. Because UI has been an underreported and undertreated problem for decades despite appropriate guidelines being created for general practitioners (GPs).

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Routine primary care data for 2017 in the Netherlands.

Subjects

We included the primary care records of women aged 18-75 years with at least one contact registered for UI, and then extracted information about baseline characteristics, diagnosis, treatment, and referral to pelvic physiotherapy or secondary care.

Results

In total, 374 records were included for women aged 50.3 ± 15.1 years. GPs di

SUBMITTER: Schreuder MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9090412 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature