Development, validation and testing of an epidemiological case definition of interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome.
Posted By Pain Physician on April 30, 2010
CONCLUSIONS: No single case definition of interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome provides high sensitivity and high specificity to identify the condition. For prevalence studies of interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome the best approach may be to use 2 definitions that would yield a prevalence range. The RAND Interstitial Cystitis Epidemiology interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome case definitions, developed through structured consensus and validation, can be used for this purpose.
PMID: 20303099 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] (Source: Pain Physician)
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