Comparison between reduction in 24‐hour pad weight, International Consultation on Incontinence‐Short Form (ICIQ‐SF) score, International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS), and Post‐Operative Patient Global Impression of Improvement (PGI‐I) score in patient evaluation after male perineal sling

Abstract

This study validates the construct validity of the ICIQ-SF and PGI-I in the assessment of treatment for male stress incontinence and should make clinicians confident in comparing studies of incontinence treatment utilizing the change ICIQ-SF score, the post-operative PGI-I score, and percentage reduction in 24-hr pad weight as outcome measures.