Society guideline links: Urinary incontinence in adults

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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International

●International Continence Society (ICS): Current standardisations

●ICS: Report on the terminology for adult neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction (ANLUTD) (2017)

●Sixth International Consultation on Incontinence: Recommendations for the evaluation and treatment of urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and faecal incontinence (2018)

●International Urogynecological Association (IUGA): Guidelines for research and clinical practice on the evaluation and outcome measures in the treatment of female urinary stress incontinence (2008)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't place, or leave in place, urinary catheters without an acceptable indication (such as critical illness, obstruction, palliative care) (2018)

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Conservative management of urinary incontinence (2018)

●SOGC: Guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of recurrent urinary incontinence following pelvic floor surgery (2017)

●Canadian Urological Association (CUA): Guidelines for adult urinary incontinence collaborative consensus document, update (2012)

United States

●American Urological Association (AUA)/Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine & Urogenital Reconstruction (SUFU): Guideline for diagnosis and treatment of non-neurogenic overactive bladder (OAB) in adults (2019)

●AUA/SUFU: Guideline on incontinence after prostate treatment (2019)

●American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS) and American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Committee opinion on the evaluation of uncomplicated stress urinary incontinence in women before surgical treatment (2014, reaffirmed 2017)

●AUA/SUFU: Guideline on surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) (2017)

●ACOG: Practice bulletin on urinary incontinence in women (2015)

●AUA/SUFU: Guideline on adult urodynamics (2012)

Europe

●European Association of Urology (EAU): Guidelines on urinary incontinence

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Clinical guideline on urinary incontinence in neurological disease – Assessment and management (2012, updated 2023)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on transcutaneous electrical neuromuscular stimulation for urinary incontinence (2022)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on transvaginal laser therapy for stress urinary incontinence (2021)

●NICE: Quality standard on urinary incontinence in women (2015, updated 2021)

●NICE: Guideline on urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in women – Management (2019)

●NICE: Clinical guideline on lower urinary tract symptoms in men – Management (2010, updated 2015)

●NICE: Quality standard on lower urinary tract symptoms in men (2013)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on intramural urethral bulking procedures for stress urinary incontinence in women (2005)

Australia–New Zealand

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Don't use urinary catheters to manage urinary incontinence unless all other appropriate options have proved to be ineffective or to prevent wound infection or skin breakdown

●Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP): Aged Care Clinical Guide (Silver Book, Part A), 5th edition – Urinary incontinence

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japanese Continence Society (JCS): Guidelines