Editing Functional: Urinary Incontinence (section)

==== Pad tests ====
* Can be helpful in quantifying leakage
* Tedious and cumbersome; generally used for academic purposes.
** Most guidelines have not recommended the use of pad testing.
** Many investigators advocate for pad tests in clinical trials, because pad tests can provide objective, precise information for assessment of actual volume of urine lost over an established period.
** The International Continence Society recommends both a 3-day bladder diary and pad weight test as proper measures for symptom quantification in incontinence research.
* '''Urine loss >1.3g is considered a positive 24-hour pad test, whereas others consider up to 8g of urine loss in 24 hours to be normal'''
** '''Vaginal secretions should be taken into consideration, although the volume attributable to normal vaginal secretions may be as low as 0.3g in 24 hours'''.