. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 17.

Published in final edited form as: Curr Urol Rep. 2018 May 17;19(7):48. doi: 10.1007/s11934-018-0797-9

Table 1.

Voiding PROMs in urethral stricture literature

PROM	Publication	Specific condition	Pros	Cons
AUA-SS	Barry et al. 1992 [20]	Benign prostatic hypertrophy	• Significant correlation with postoperative uroflow	• Not specific for urethral stricture
			• Significant correlation with postoperative uroflow	• Floor effect in 21% of patients
			• Adequate reliability, internal consistency	• Lack of content validity
CLSS	Homma et al. 2008 [21]	Mix of conditions affecting urinary tract	• Addressing multiple urinary complains	• Not specific for urethral stricture
CLSS	Homma et al. 2008 [21]	Mix of conditions affecting urinary tract	• Quality of life component
ISI	Wei et al. 2003 [22]	Urinary incontinence	• Addressing bother related to incontinence	• Utilized in few studies
ISI	Wei et al. 2003 [22]	Urinary incontinence		• Not specific for urethral stricture
Expert created	Kessler et al. 2002 [7]	Urethral stricture	• Assessing urinary and sexual impact	• Not validated
Expert created	Kessler et al. 2002 [7]	Urethral stricture	• Quality of life component
USS PROM	Jackson et al. 2011 [17••]	Urethral stricture	• Excellent psychometric parameters	• Not addressing sexual function/oral mucosa complains
			• Disease specific	• Not addressing sexual function/oral mucosa complains
				• Questions are not constructed according to patients’ complaints
USSIM	Breyer et al., 2017 [19••]	Urethral stricture	• Most comprehensive PROM	• In the process of validation
			• Urethral stricture specific
			• Significant patient input and quality of life component

AUA-SS American Urological Association Symptom Score, CLSS Core Lower Urinary Tract Symptom Score, ISI Incontinence Symptom Index, USS PROM Urethra Stricture Surgery PROM, USSIM Urethral Stricture Symptoms and Impact Measure