Prepared by: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) www.ahrq.gov.
This slide set is based on a comparative effectiveness review (CER), Nonsurgical Treatments for Urinary Incontinence in Adult Women: Diagnosis and Comparative Effectiveness, that was developed by the Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
CERs are comprehensive, systematic reviews of the literature that usually compare two or more types of treatment, such as different drugs or adding a second drug to usual care for the same disease. The literature included in this review was identified in searches for trials and studies that explicitly evaluated the effectiveness of non-surgical interventions for urinary incontinence. Searches were conducted for studies published from January 1990 through December 2011.
