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Mark S. Litwin, MD, MPH

JAMA. 1995;273(21):1725-1726.

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The medical outcomes and practice guidelines movements profoundly affected the field of urology in 1994 with the long-awaited publication of the Clinical Practice Guideline for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) from the US Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.¹ Intended for use by primary care providers as well as urologists, the guideline provides a straightforward algorithm for the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive urinary symptoms in men older than 50 years. It is an evidence-based guideline, developed by a multidisciplinary panel of experts during several years of work.²

In the guideline, diagnostic evaluation relies heavily on the patient's own symptom assessment using the American Urological Association Symptom Index, a seven-item questionnaire that focuses on incomplete emptying, weak or intermittent stream, urgency, hesitancy, and nocturia.³ This questionnaire is a psychometrically valid and reliable self-administered instrument that scores obstructive voiding symptoms on a scale from 0 to 35, with . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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University of California, Los Angeles

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