ePrints

How can we maximize the diagnostic utility of uroflow?: ICI-RS 2017

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Christopher HardingORCiD

Downloads

Full text for this publication is not currently held within this repository. Alternative links are provided below where available.

Abstract

© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Aims: To gauge the current level of diagnostic utility of uroflowmetry and to suggest areas needing research to improve this. Methods: A summary of the debate held at the 2017 meeting of the International Consultation on Incontinence Research Society, with subsequent analysis by the authors. Results: Limited diagnostic sensitivity and specificity exist for maximum flow rates, multiple uroflow measurements, and flow-volume nomograms. There is a lack of clarity in flow rate curve shape description and uroflow time measurement. Conclusions: There is a need for research to combine uroflowmetry with other non-invasive indicators. Better standardizations of test technique, flow-volume nomograms, uroflow shape descriptions, and time measurements are required.

Publication metadata

Author(s): Gammie A, Rosier P, Li R, Harding C

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Neurourology and Urodynamics

Year: 2018

Volume: 37

Issue: S4

Pages: S20-S24

Print publication date: 01/06/2018

Online publication date: 09/01/2018

Acceptance date: 20/11/2017

ISSN (print): 0733-2467

ISSN (electronic): 1520-6777

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.

URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/nau.23472

DOI: 10.1002/nau.23472

Altmetrics

Share