Table.
Baseline characteristics, measures of incontinence, and number (percentage) in each severity index category by patient group
| Patient group
|
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|---|---|---|---|
| Community | Continence clinic | Surgical | |
| Baseline | |||
| No | 79 | 75 | 83 |
| Characteristics: | |||
| Mean (SD) age (years) | 76 (12) | 50 (14) | 50 (12) |
| Mean (SD) Barthel score (maximum=20) | 15.7 (3.2) | 18.5 (1.1) | 18.2 (0.9) |
| Mean (SD) abbreviated mental test score (maximum=10) | 8.5 (1.5) | 9.2 (0.8) | 9.5 (0.9) |
| Severity index category: | |||
| Slight | 5 (6) | 16 (21) | 8 (10) |
| Moderate | 16 (20) | 33 (44) | 18 (22) |
| Severe | 58 (73) | 26 (35) | 57 (69) |
| Measures of incontinence: | |||
| Median (range) urine leakage (g) in 48 hours | 292 (5-3257) | 41 (1-898) | 32 (2-822) |
| Median (range) episodes of leakage in 48 hours | 6.5 (0-47) | 1 (0-24) | 4 (0-23) |
| After treatment | |||
| No | 0 | 60* | 69* |
| Severity index category: | |||
| Dry | 1 (2) | 41 (59) | |
| Slight | 15 (25) | 7 (10) | |
| Moderate | 27 (45) | 17 (25) | |
| Severe | 17 (28) | 4 (6) | |
| Measures of incontinence: | |||
| Median (range) urine leakage (g) in 48 hours | 0 (0-542) | 0 (0-32) | |
| Median (range) episodes of leakage in 48 hours | 0 (0-37) | 0 (0-3) | |
*
Eighty five of these women (29 from the continence clinic and 56 surgical patients) reported in their urinary diaries that they were dry over 48 hours and declined to wear pads. A weight of urine of zero was assumed, although this could not be validated.