International prostate symptom score (IPSS) - Evidencio
International prostate symptom score (IPSS)
The International Prostate Symptom Score (I-PSS) is based on the answers to seven questions concerning urinary symptoms and one question concerning quality of life. Each question concerning urinary symptoms allows the patient to choose one out of six answers indicating increasing severity of the particular symptom. The answers are assigned points from 0 to 5. The total score can therefore range from 0 to 35 (asymptomatic to very symptomatic).
Research authors: J.L.H.R. Bosch, W.C.J. Hop, W.J. Kirkels, F.H. Schröder
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The parameters used to characterize benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) should be considered independently because no predictions about the value of a certain parameter can be made by knowing one of the other parameter values. Symptom scores should therefore not be used as a pre-selection criterion in the determination of the prevalence of clinical BPH without taking other measures into account. The interpretation of the parameter values in a clinical setting should take the lack of correlation and the variability of the parameter values into account.

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