Questionnaire to Distinguish between Stress and Urge Urinary Incontinence

  1. Shriprakash Kalantri, MD, MPH
  1. From Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Maharashtra, India.

    TO THE EDITOR:

    Brown and colleagues (1) evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the 3 Incontinence Questions (3IQ) for discriminating between types of urinary incontinence and suggest that the questionnaire may be used to classify and treat women with urinary incontinence in the primary care setting. The data from the study, however, indicate that the authors' confidence in the 3IQ is misplaced. We can interpret the results of the study by using likelihood ratios to compute posttest probabilities (predictive …

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    • Article:The Sensitivity and Specificity of a Simple Test To Distinguish between Urge and Stress Urinary Incontinence
      • Jeanette S. Brown,
      • Catherine S. Bradley,
      • Leslee L. Subak,
      • Holly E. Richter,
      • Stephen R. Kraus,
      • Linda Brubaker,
      • Feng Lin,
      • Eric Vittinghoff,
      • Deborah Grady,
      • and for the Diagnostic Aspects of Incontinence Study (DAISy) Research Group
      Ann Intern Med May 16, 2006 144:715-723
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