Reviewing the ICS 2002 terminology report: The ongoing debate

✍ Scribed by Paul Abrams; Walter Artibani; Linda Cardozo; Roger Dmochowski; Philip van Kerrebroeck; Peter Sand

• Book ID: 102545022
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 47 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0733-2467
• DOI: 10.1002/nau.20737

✦ Synopsis

Reviewing the ICS 2002 Terminology Report:

The Ongoing Debate y AtICS 2004, held in Paris, an ICS sponsored workshop debated the new terminology contained in the 2002 report [Abrams et al., 2002] and made the following suggestions:

The ICS definition of urgency is the complaint of a sudden compelling desire to pass urine which is difficult to defer. Urgency remains a symptom that is much discussed and suggestions have been made which are intended to ''improve'' the definition.

y This paper was previously published in NAU 2006; 25: 293.