EP. 9: Treatment Goals and Educational Resources for Patients on Initial Pharmacologic Therapy for OAB

“This brand new guideline offers options for all patients with OAB with a focus on shared decision-making between patients with OAB and clinicians, as well as a personalized, tailored approach to care,” said Cameron and Smith.

“This technique is feasible, it is very well tolerated, and there’s not much of a complication rate, so it appears to be very safe,” says Amy D. Dobberfuhl, MD, MS.

"There are plenty of articles written about stress-induced urgency. I, at the time, only found 1 article written in the gynecologic literature about what they called stand-up urgency," according to Colin Goudelocke, MD.

“We need to improve the fact that 75% of these patients are untreated [or] unmanaged and frustrated,” says Alexandra Rogers, MD.

Colin Goudelocke, MD, describes an abstract presented at the 2024 Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine & Urogenital Reconstruction Winter Meeting.

In the intervention group, the HRQOL score changed by 23.9 points between baseline and week 13, from 18.4 to 29.5.