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Urinary incontinence (CG40) |
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Urinary incontinence: the management of urinary incontinence in women
This NICE guideline covers the care of women with urinary incontinence. It gives advice on treatments for several types of urinary incontinence and related conditions, including stress incontinence, overactive bladder syndrome, which may involve urge incontinence, stress and urge incontinence occurring together.
It does not look at urinary incontinence caused specifically by diseases of the nervous system, urinary incontinence in men or in children, and faecal incontinence.
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This guidance replaces TA56 Stress incontinence - tension-free vaginal tape.
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Other information
- CG40 Urinary incontinence: NICE guideline (web format)
- CG40 Urinary incontinence: pullout
- CG40 Urinary incontinence: search strategies
How this guidance was produced
Background information
This page was last updated: 18 April 2012
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Guideline formats
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Implementation tools and resources
- Audit support
- Costing report
- Costing template
- Electronic audit tool
- Implementation advice
- Slide set
- Urinary incontinence: implementation advice appendix: King's Health questionnaire
- Urinary incontinence: implementation advice appendix: stress and urge incontinence questionnaire
- Urinary continence service commissioning guide
- Urinary incontinence in women: online educational tool
See this guidance in practice
Patient
The summary of the key recommendations in the guidance written for patients, carers and those with little medical knowledge and may be used in local patient information leaflets.
Quick Reference Guide
The quick reference guide presents recommendations for health professionals
NICE Guideline
The published NICE clinical guideline, contains the recommendations for health professionals and NHS bodies.
Full Guideline
The published full clinical guideline for specialists with background, evidence, recommendations and methods used.
