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Apractical primary care approach to lower urinary tract symptoms caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH-LUTS)
TABLE 1.
International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) questionnaire
Not
Less
Less
About More Almost
Your
at all
than than half
than always score
1 time half
the
half
in 5
the
time the
time
time
1. Incomplete emptying
Over the past month, how often have 0
1
2
3
4
5
you had a sensation of not emptying
your bladder completely after you
finished urinating?
2. Frequency
Over the past month, how often have 0
1
3
4
4
5
you had to urinate again less than 2
hours after you finished urinating?
3. Intermittency
Over the past month, how often have 0
1
2
3
4
5
you found you stopped and started
again several times when you urinated?
4. Urgency
Over the past month, how often have 0
1
2
3
4
5
you found it difficult to postpone
urination?
5. Weak stream
Over the past month, how often have 0
1
2
3
4
5
you had a weak urinary stream?
6. Straining
Over the past month, how often have 0
1
2
3
4
5
you had to push or strain to begin
urination?
None
1
2
3
4
5 times
time times times times or more
7. Nocturia
Over the past month, how many times 0
1
2
3
4
5
did you most typically get up to urinate
from the time you went to bed at night
until the time you got up in the morning?
Total IPSS score _____
mild BPH (1 to 7), moderate BPH (8 to 19), or severe BPH (20 to 35)
Delighted Pleased Mostly Mixed Mostly Unhappy Terrible
satisfied
dissatisfied
1. Quality-of-life due
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
to urinary symptoms
If you were to spend the
rest of your life with your
urinary condition just the
way it is now, how would
you feel about that?
