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Is patient reporting of interstitial cystitis symptoms comparable between two disease-specific indices?

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boxed-textSirinian E et al. (2005) Correlation between 2 interstitial cystitis symptom instruments. J Urol 173: 835–840

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  1. Assistant Professor of Urology and Director of the Section of Voiding Dysfunction and Female Urology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

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Glossary

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INDEX (UWI)

Patient questionnaire used to diagnose interstitial cystitis based on specific interstitial cystitis-related symptoms as well as general medical symptoms (range 0–6)

INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS SYMPTOM INDEX (ICSI)

Scoring system to diagnose interstitial cystitis based on how often symptoms of urgency, frequency, nocturia, and bladder pain occur (range 0–5)

INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS PROBLEM INDEX (ICPI)

Scoring system to diagnose interstitial cystitis based on how problematic symptoms of urgency, frequency, nocturia, and bladder pain are (range 0–5)

CI (CONFIDENCE INTERVAL)

An estimated range of values (based on a given set of sample data) that has a specified probability of containing the value being estimated

HUNNER'S ULCER

A lesion, sometimes multiple, appearing as a small brown or red patch on the bladder mucosa involving all the layers of the bladder wall

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