Setting-Specific Interventions
OUTPATIENT
- Cost effective ways to manage UI without
surgery have been identified by Tamara King, RN, MSN,
CETN, urology manager at Shepard Center in Atlanta.
- Surgery for stress incontinence costs
$7,000 - $8,000 and involves a two or three day stay.
- Collagen injections costs about $400 per
injection, and additional cost for the physician's fees.
- An electrical stimulation device for
Kegel's exercises costs about $150 a month to rent.
Kegel's exercises without electrical stimulation involves
no cost.
- An outpatient study of men:
- Involved men who were suffering
from stress incontinence following radical
prostatectomy.
- After completing a 12 week course
of electrical stimulation, pelvic floor
exercises, and biofeedback, 27 subjects had the
following results:
- 48% reported complete
continence
- 26% reported decreased
incontinence
- 26% reported no
improvement
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