Urinary incontinence

Within the framework of an investigation being carried out into the appropriateness of current medical procedures (the ’126-List’), a committee of the Health Council of the Netherlands assesses in this advisory report the current diagnosis and treatment of urinary incontinence – the involuntary loss of urine – in adults.

The committee distinguishes two groups of patients: those with simple health care requirements, suffering no serious comorbidity and no severe constraints upon ordinary daily activity; and geriatric patients requiring complex health care, generally suffering multiple comorbidity and severe constraints upon ordinary daily activities and mobility.