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Table 5 Percentages of MS patients treated by an urologist and percentages receiving bladder-specific drug treatment in relation to positive and negative test results according to the original scoring and simplified scoring systems

From: Simplified scoring of the Actionable 8-item screening questionnaire for neurogenic bladder overactivity in multiple sclerosis: a comparative analysis of test performance at different cut-off points

N = 141

Original scoring cut-off 6

Simplified scoring cut-off 3

Simplified scoring cut-off 2

Positive

Negative

Positive

Negative

Positive

Negative

70.21 %

29.79 %

43.26 %

56.74 %

62.41 %

37.59 %

Treated by urologist

46.46 %

23.81 %*

50.82 %

31.25 %**

44.32 %

32.08 %

Bladder medication

37.37 %

19.05 %***

36.07 %

28.75 %

38.64 %

20.75 %****

  1. *P = 0.0119; **P = 0.0186; ***P = 0.0328; ****P = 0.0274