Defining and managing overactive bladder: disagreement among the experts.

Objective: To better understand experts' perceptions of the definition of overactive bladder (OAB) and the evaluation and treatment of OAB in women.

Materials And Methods: OAB has been defined by the International Continence Society as "urinary urgency, with or without urge urinary incontinence, usually with frequency and nocturia." Under the current definition, people with very different clinical conditions are included under the OAB umbrella.

How dry is "OAB-dry"? Perspectives from patients and physician experts.

Purpose: Overactive bladder is subtyped into overactive bladder-wet and overactive bladder-dry, based on the presence or absence, respectively, of urgency incontinence. To better understand patient and physician perspectives on symptoms among women with overactive bladder-wet and overactive bladder-dry, we performed patient focus groups and interviews with experts in urinary incontinence.

Materials And Methods: Five focus groups totaling 33 patients with overactive bladder symptoms, including 3 groups of overactive bladder-wet and 2 groups of overactive bladder-dry patients, were conducted.