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Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Urinary Incontinence--Diagnosis

Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Urinary Incontinence--Diagnosis

University of Arizona College of Medicine
Author(s):  
Barry Weiss, MD, Serena Scott MD, Christian O Twiss MD FACS
Sponsor: 
Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
Geriatric Education Center (GEC)
POGOe Id: 
20206
Date Posted: 
11/30/2017
Date Reviewed/Updated for Clinical Accuracy: 
11/30/2017
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Abstract: 

"Urinary Incontinence--Diagnosis" is one of a continuing series of practical, evidence based, Provider Fact Sheets which summarize key geriatric topics and provide clinically useful assessments and interventions. Initially developed for remote, rural clinical sites,  they are useful for students and health care professionals from many fields and across a very broad range of health care settings.

Educational objectives: 
Objectives:
1. List potentially reversible causes of urinary incontinence
2. Use a patient’s symptoms to distinguish stress incontinence from urge incontinence
3. Order the correct laboratory tests for evaluation of patients with urinary incontinence
Additional information/Special implementation requirements or guidelines: 
Subscribers to POGOe are free to reprint Elder Care on their own stationery or in other publications without obtaining specific permission, so long as
  1. content is not changed, 
  2.  no one is charged a fee to use or read the publication, 
  3.  authors and their affiliated institutions are noted without change, and
  4. the reprint includes the following statement: “Reprinted courtesy of the Arizona Reynolds Program of Applied Geriatrics and the Arizona Geriatric Education Center."
Content Categories: 
Geriatric Syndromes
Intended learner audience: 
Fellow
Medical Student Clinical
Practicing Physician/CME
Resident
Learning resource types: 
Independent/Self-Directed Learning
Quick Reference/Pocket Card
Discipline/specialty: 
Family Medicine
Internal Medicine
Intro to Clinical Medicine/Clinical Skills/Doctoring
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Physical Diagnosis
Conflict of Interest Disclosure: 
No, I (we) have nothing to disclose.
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Contact Person/Corresponding Author:
Laura Vitkus [email protected]


Suggested Citation:
Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Urinary Incontinence--Diagnosis. POGOe - Portal of Geriatrics Online Education; 2017 Available from: https://pogoe.org/productid/20206