Mindfulness in Surgical Training (MiST): A Modified Mindfulness Curriculum for Surgical Residents.

Objectives: Residents experience numerous work-related and personal stressors that make it difficult to focus in the operating room, negatively impacting learning and surgical performance. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy decreases anxiety and improves memory and learning. This study aimed to create a feasible and desirable modified mindfulness curriculum for surgical residents.

Incontinence-specific quality of life measures used in trials of treatments for female urinary incontinence: a systematic review.

This systematic review examined the use of incontinence-specific quality of life (QOL) measures in clinical trials of female incontinence treatments, and systematically evaluated their quality using a standard checklist. Of 61 trials included in the review, 58 (95.1%) used an incontinence-specific QOL measure.

Voiding patterns and urodynamics after a tension-free vaginal tape procedure.

Objective: To evaluate changes in urodynamic parameters, therapeutic success, and complication rates after a tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) procedure in women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI).

Methods: Sixty-three women who underwent a TVT procedure for SUI, between June 1999 and December 2001 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, were prospectively followed. Pre- and postoperative clinical data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney, chi-square, paired t-test, and Wilcoxon signed ranks tests.

What is the available evidence for hormone replacement therapy in women with stress urinary incontinence?

Objective: To examine the evidence for the effectiveness of estrogen replacement therapy, with or without progesterone, for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in hypoestrogenic women.

Methods: MEDLINE, DARE, CINAHL, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and EMBASE databases were searched for studies, in all languages, that used estrogen therapy, with or without progesterone, in hypoestrogenic women with SUI. The following key words were used in the search: estrogen, hormone replacement therapy, female urinary incontinence, stress urinary incontinence, and urodynamic stress incontinence.