Patient and physician decision-making dynamics in overactive bladder care: A mixed methods study.

Aims: Overactive bladder management includes multiple therapeutic options with comparable efficacy but a range of administration modalities and side effects, creating an ideal setting for shared decision-making. This study investigates patient and physician health beliefs surrounding decision-making and expectations for overactive bladder with the aim of better understanding and ultimately improving decision-making in overactive bladder care.

Methods: Patient and physician participants completed a questionnaire followed by a semi-structured interview to assess health beliefs surrounding decision making and expectations for overactive bladder treatment.

Shared Decision-making in Urologic Practice: Results From the 2019 AUA Census.

Objective: To establish the rates of self-reported shared decision-making (SDM) and decision aid use among practicing urologists. Additionally, we aim to determine the practice factors that influence SDM use.

Materials And Methods: This study uses data from the 2019 American Urological Association Annual Census SDM module.

Depth and Location of Sacral Suture Placement During Cadaveric Simulation of Open Sacrocolpopexy.

Objectives: To evaluate the location and depth of placement of sacral sutures in a cadaveric sacrocolpopexy model.

Materials And Methods: Following a 1-hour instructional session, trainees performed an open sacrocolpopexy on unembalmed cadavers under guidance by a Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery board-certified surgeon. At completion of the session, the presacral tissues were dissected and the location and depth of each sacral suture was identified.

A longitudinal analysis of urological chronic pelvic pain syndrome flares in the Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain (MAPP) Research Network.

Objective: To describe the frequency, intensity and duration of urological chronic pelvic pain syndrome symptom exacerbations ('flares'), as well as risk factors for these features, in the Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain Epidemiology and Phenotyping longitudinal study.

Participants And Methods: Current flare status ('urological or pelvic pain symptoms that are much worse than usual') was ascertained at each bi-weekly assessment. Flare characteristics, including start date, and current intensity of pelvic pain, urgency and frequency (scales of 0-10), were assessed for participants' first three flares and at three randomly selected times when they did not report a flare.

Urological chronic pelvic pain syndrome flares and their impact: qualitative analysis in the MAPP network.

Introduction And Hypothesis: Although in-depth qualitative information is critical to understanding patients' symptom experiences and to developing patient-centered outcome measures, only one previous qualitative study has assessed urological chronic pelvic pain syndrome (UCPPS) symptom exacerbations ("flares").

Methods: We conducted eight focus groups of female UCPPS (interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome) patients at four sites from the MAPP Research Network (n = 57, mean = 7/group) to explore the full spectrum of flares and their impact on patients' lives.

Results: Flare experiences were common and varied widely in terms of UCPPS symptoms involved, concurrent nonpelvic symptoms (e.