Assessment of lower urinary tract symptoms in men by international prostate symptom score and core lower urinary tract symptom score

摘要

The development of questionnaires to qualify and quantify LUTS is an interesting endeavour. Although there is a consensus as to the use of questionnaires in clinical research, there is no evidence of the clinical benefit of LUTS questionnaires in daily practice. The rationale for using questionnaires is fivefold: to ask questions that are psychologically validated (i.e. questions that patients understand), to standardize the way symptoms are evaluated by different urologists, to educate the residents about the questions that should be posed to patients referred for lower urinary tract dysfunction, to follow the natural history of the disease over time in patients on watchful waiting and to. measure response to treatment.