Outputs (18)

Measuring the impact of managing incontinence on people with dementia and informal caregivers: Cognitive debriefing interviews of ‘ICIQ-Cog’ (English translation) (2025)
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The ICIQ-Cog questionnaire was developed in German to measure the impact of incontinence and/or toilet use problems on people living with dementia and their paid carers and unpaid caregivers; it has been translated into English. This study aime... Read More about Measuring the impact of managing incontinence on people with dementia and informal caregivers: Cognitive debriefing interviews of ‘ICIQ-Cog’ (English translation).

Do we have sufficient evidence to derive innovative approaches to assessing unmet need, delivering education on bladder and bowel continence health, and providing a better environment for joint decision-making? ICI-RS 2024 (2025)
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Context: Improved continence outcomes are reliant on identification of unmet need, education delivery, and shared decision‐making. The evidence base on which to derive innovative approaches in these areas was unclear.

Methods: A debate held at the... Read More about Do we have sufficient evidence to derive innovative approaches to assessing unmet need, delivering education on bladder and bowel continence health, and providing a better environment for joint decision-making? ICI-RS 2024.

Identifying the key determinants of a community pharmacy based bladder and bowel service (2024)
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Objectives
Community pharmacies and their personnel present an opportunity to implement new services for bladder and bowel continence care. Underpinned by the COM-B model of capability (C), opportunity (O), motivation (M), Behaviour (B)), this study... Read More about Identifying the key determinants of a community pharmacy based bladder and bowel service.

The role of community pharmacy in the promotion of continence care: A systematic review (2024)
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Community pharmacies are convenient healthcare settings which provide a wide range of services in addition to medicine supply. Continence care is an area where there is an opportunity for the implementation of new innovations to improve clinical and... Read More about The role of community pharmacy in the promotion of continence care: A systematic review.

Treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms in men in primary care using a conservative intervention: cluster randomised controlled trial (2023)
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Objective(s): To determine whether a standardised and manualised intervention for Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) achieves superior symptomatic improvement versus usual care.
Design: 2-arm cluster randomised controlled trial where sites were ran... Read More about Treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms in men in primary care using a conservative intervention: cluster randomised controlled trial.

Development and first-in-human testing of FLUME urinary catheter with protected tip and relocated drainage holes (2023)
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Evaluation of a catheter design which protects its tip with the retaining balloon when inflated, and has eyeholes at the base of the balloon to improve drainage. Preclinical tests included assessment of retaining balloon performance, and microbiologi... Read More about Development and first-in-human testing of FLUME urinary catheter with protected tip and relocated drainage holes.

Proper understanding of recurrent stress urinary incontinence treatment in women (PURSUIT): A randomised controlled trial of endoscopic and surgical treatment (2022)
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Background: Women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) experience urine leakage with physical activity. Currently, the interventional treatments for SUI are surgical, or endoscopic bulking injection(s). However, these procedures are not always succ... Read More about Proper understanding of recurrent stress urinary incontinence treatment in women (PURSUIT): A randomised controlled trial of endoscopic and surgical treatment.

Professional perspectives on impacts, benefits and disadvantages of changes made to community continence services during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the EPICCC-19 national survey (2022)
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic required changes to the organisation and delivery of NHS community continence services which assess and treat adults and children experiencing bladder and bowel difficulties. Although strong evidence exists for the p... Read More about Professional perspectives on impacts, benefits and disadvantages of changes made to community continence services during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the EPICCC-19 national survey.

CONfidence: developing an app to promote bladder and bowel health (2022)
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Through a series of events with healthcare staff, patients and members of the public in Bristol, we identified a need for more easily accessible information for bowel and bladder incontinence. This was particularly important for the many people who d... Read More about CONfidence: developing an app to promote bladder and bowel health.

Female urgency, trial of urodynamics as routine evaluation (FUTURE study): A superiority randomised clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of invasive urodynamic investigations in management of women with refractory overactive bladder symptoms (2021)
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Background: Overactive bladder (OAB) syndrome is a symptom complex affecting 12–14% of the UK adult female population. Symptoms include urinary urgency, with or without urgency incontinence, increased daytime urinary frequency and nocturia. OAB has a... Read More about Female urgency, trial of urodynamics as routine evaluation (FUTURE study): A superiority randomised clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of invasive urodynamic investigations in management of women with refractory overactive bladder symptoms.

The development of the Cystectomy-Pathway Assessment Tool (C-PAT): a concise tool to assess the quality of care in the cystectomy pathway (2021)
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Objectives: To develop and test the psychometric properties of a concise, patient-reported questionnaire, designed to assess key aspects of the radical cystectomy (RC) patient pathway that are important to both patients and clinicians. Patients and M... Read More about The development of the Cystectomy-Pathway Assessment Tool (C-PAT): a concise tool to assess the quality of care in the cystectomy pathway.

Seizing the opportunity to improve patient care: Pelvic Floor services in 2021 and beyond (2021)
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Outcomes of a noninferiority randomised controlled trial of surgery for men with urodynamic stress incontinence after prostate surgery (MASTER) (2021)
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Background
Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is common after radical prostatectomy and likely to persist despite conservative treatment. The sling is an emerging operation for persistent SUI, but randomised controlled trial (RCT) comparison with the... Read More about Outcomes of a noninferiority randomised controlled trial of surgery for men with urodynamic stress incontinence after prostate surgery (MASTER).

Thulium laser transurethral vaporesection of the prostate versus transurethral resection of the prostate for men with lower urinary tract symptoms or urinary retention (UNBLOCS): A randomised controlled trial (2020)
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Background: Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is the standard operation for benign prostatic obstruction. Thulium laser transurethral vaporesection of the prostate (ThuVARP) is a technique with suggested advantages over TURP, including r... Read More about Thulium laser transurethral vaporesection of the prostate versus transurethral resection of the prostate for men with lower urinary tract symptoms or urinary retention (UNBLOCS): A randomised controlled trial.

The International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaires (ICIQ): An update on status and direction (2020)
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Aims: In its 22nd year, the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire (ICIQ) project continues to promote its primary objective; the development and dissemination of patient completed questionnaires for the standardized, high-quality a... Read More about The International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaires (ICIQ): An update on status and direction.

Grading severity and bother using the International Prostate Symptom Score and International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Male Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Score in men seeking lower urinary tract symptoms therapy (2020)
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PURPOSE: We established severity banding ranges, bother assessment and key item content in principal patient reported outcomes measures in men seeking therapy for lower urinary tract symptoms. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data for International Prostate Sy... Read More about Grading severity and bother using the International Prostate Symptom Score and International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Male Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Score in men seeking lower urinary tract symptoms therapy.

International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire-Satisfaction: psychometric testing of a new patient-reported outcome measure for the evaluation of satisfaction after urological surgery (2020)
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Objectives: To evaluate the psychometric properties of a new patient-reported outcome measure (PROM), the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire-Satisfaction (ICIQ-S), to assess satisfaction after urological surgery. Subjects/Patien... Read More about International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire-Satisfaction: psychometric testing of a new patient-reported outcome measure for the evaluation of satisfaction after urological surgery.

TReatIng Urinary symptoms in Men in Primary Healthcare using non-pharmacological and non-surgical interventions (TRIUMPH) compared with usual care: Study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial (2019)
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Background: Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) can relate to urinary storage or voiding. In men, the prevalence and severity of LUTS increases with age, with a significant impact on quality of life. The majority of men presenting with LUTS are manag... Read More about TReatIng Urinary symptoms in Men in Primary Healthcare using non-pharmacological and non-surgical interventions (TRIUMPH) compared with usual care: Study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.