Real-world characteristics of elderly patients with overactive bladder in the United States.

CONCLUSIONS: Elderly patients with OAB in the general population have high levels of functional impairment and physical limitations, comorbidity, and concomitant medication use. These characteristics should be taken into consideration when managing OAB symptoms and designing future clinical studies. These results, which are representative of elderly patients with OAB in the general US population, should, however, be interpreted in light of the key limitations of the data we used: patients may have been misclassified and medical conditions overestimated due to artifacts of diagnosis coding and our results can only be generalized to patients who were enrolled in Medicare Parts A, B, and D for at least 12 continuous months. PMID: 27645532 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Medical Research and Opinion - Category: Research Tags: Curr Med Res Opin Source Type: research