Erschienen in:
01.12.2007 | Letter to the Editor
St. Mark’s Incontinence Score
verfasst von:
Yasuko Maeda, M.R.C.S., Carolynne J. Vaizey, M.D., F.C.S.(S.A.), F.R.C.S., Christine Norton, Ph.D., M.A., R.N.
Erschienen in:
Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
|
Ausgabe 12/2007
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Excerpt
To the Editor—We would like to comment on the recent article by Byrne
et al.
1 The authors referred to the incontinence score used to assess the outcome of biofeedback treatment as the “St. Mark’s incontinence score.” This scoring system has a range of 0 to 13 and was never validated.
2 It has been superseded by the later St. Mark’s incontinence or Vaizey score, which was created in 1999.
3 It has a range from 0 to 24. It has been validated and widely used as a tool to assess the severity of symptoms and to evaluate the outcome of treatment in fecal incontinence. We are concerned that it may be misleading to use the nomenclature St. Mark’s incontinence score for the outdated and unvalidated scoring system. …
