Pre‐operative urodynamics in women with stress urinary incontinence increases physician confidence, but does not improve outcomes. Issue 3 (1st April 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zimmern, Philippe; Litman, Heather; Nager, Charles; Sirls, Larry; Kraus, Stephen R.; Kenton, Kimberly; Wilson, Tracey; Sutkin, Gary; Siddiqui, Nazema; Vasavada, Sandip; Norton, Peggy
• Is Part Of: Neurourology and urodynamics. Volume 33:Issue 3(2014:Mar.)
• Page Start: 302
• Page End: 306
• Publication Date: 2013-04-01
• Subjects: Urinary organs -- Periodicals; Urodynamics -- Periodicals; Urology -- Periodicals; 616.6
• DOI: 10.1002/nau.22398
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0733-2467

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title>Abstract</title> <sec id="nau22398-sec-0001" sec-type="section"> <title>Aims</title> <p>To determine if pre‐operative urodynamic testing (UDS) affects physicians' diagnostic confidence and if physician confidence affects treatment outcomes at 1 year.</p> </sec> <sec id="nau22398-sec-0002" sec-type="section"> <title>Methods</title> <p>The Value of Urodynamic Evaluation (ValUE) trial randomized 630 women with predominant stress urinary incontinence (SUI) to office evaluation (OE) or OE plus UDS prior to surgery. After OE, physicians completed a checklist of five clinical diagnoses: SUI, overactive bladder (OAB) wet and dry, voiding dysfunction (VD), and intrinsic sphincter deficiency (ISD), and reported their confidence in each. Responses ranged from 1 to 5 with; 1 = "not very confident (<50%)" to 5 = "extremely confident (95 + %)." After UDS, investigators again rated their confidence in these five clinical diagnoses. Logistic regression analysis correlated physician confidence in diagnosis with treatment success.</p> </sec> <sec id="nau22398-sec-0003" sec-type="section"> <title>Results</title> <p>Of 315 women who received OE plus UDS, 294 had complete data. Confidence improved after UDS in patients with baseline SUI (4.52–4.63, <italic>P</italic> < 0.005), OAB‐wet (3.55–3.75, <italic>P</italic> < 0.001), OAB‐dry (3.55–3.68 <italic>P</italic> < 0.005), VD (3.81–3.95, <italic>P</italic> < 0.005), and suspected ISD (3.63–3.92, <italic>P</italic> < 0.001). Increased confidence after UDS was not associated with higher odds of treatment success although mean changes in confidence were slightly higher for those who achieved treatment success. Physician diagnoses shifted more from not confident to confident for ISD and OAB‐wet after UDS (McNemar's <italic>P</italic>‐value <0.001 for both).</p> </sec> <sec id="nau22398-sec-0004" sec-type="section"> <title>Conclusions</title> <p>In women undergoing UDS for predominant SUI, UDS increased physicians' confidence in their clinical diagnoses; however, this did not correlate with treatment success. <italic>Neurourol. Urodynam. 33:302–306, 2014</italic>. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.</p> </sec> </abstract>