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Table 3 Subjective Improvement: Treatment Success Definition by Intervention

From: Treatment success for overactive bladder with urinary urge incontinence refractory to oral antimuscarinics: a review of published evidence

Study

Study Design

Sample Size

Study Population

Comparator

Success Evaluated (months)

Success %

Botulinum toxin type A

Loch, Eur Urol Supp, 2003* [60]

Open Label

30, 30

NOAB, IOAB

None

8, 8

67, 67

Rapp, Urology, 2004 [61]

Open Label

35

IOAB

None

6

60

Grosse, Eur Urol, 2005 [62]

Open Label

66

NOAB

None

10

86.3

Rajkumar, BJU Int, 2005 [63]

Open Label

15

IOAB

None

1.5

93

Schulte-Baukloh, Eur Urol, 2005 [64]

Open Label

44

IOAB

None

3

86

Schmid, J Urol, 2006 [65]

Open Label

100

IOAB

None

3

88

Schulte-Baukloh, Neur Urodyn, 2006 [66]

Open Label

16

NOAB

None

6

100

Kuo, J Urol, 2007 [67]

Open Label

45

IOAB

None

3

80

Augmentation cystoplasty

Edlund, Scand J Urol Nephrol, 2001 [68]

Open Label

25

IOAB

None

60

78

Barrington, Int Urogynecol J, 2006 [69]

Open Label

12

IOAB

None

12

83

Chartier-Kaslter, Spinal Cord, 2000 [43]

Open Label

17

NOAB

None

75.6

88.5

Quek, J Urol, 2003 [45]

Open Label

26

NOAB

None

96

96

Nomura, Spinal Cord, 2002 [70]

Open Label

11

NOAB

None

66

100

  1. * Denotes a study with both neurogenic OAB (NOAB) and idiopathic OAB (IOAB) populations.
  2. Note: Studies may be listed in more than one category of treatment success if multiple definitions of treatment success were reported.