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    This document contains the International Prostate Symptom Score (I-PSS) assessment. The I-PSS contains 7 questions about urinary symptoms that are scored from 0-5, with higher numbers indicating more severe symptoms. It also contains a quality of life question scored from 0-6. The total I-PSS score ranges from 0-35, and can categorize a patient's symptoms as mild (0-7), moderate (8-19), or severe (20-35). The single quality of life question is meant to start a conversation between doctor and patient about how urinary symptoms affect their quality of life.

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    International Prostate Symptom Score (I-PSS) : 1. Incomplete Emptying

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    International Prostate Symptom Score (I-PSS)

    Patient Name:
    Date:

    Not
    At
    All

    Less
    Than 1
    Time
    In 5

    Less
    Than
    Half
    The
    Time

    About
    Half
    The
    Time

    More
    Than
    Half
    The
    Time

    Almost
    Always

    None

    Once

    Twice

    3 times

    4 times

    5 or
    more

    Delighted

    Pleased

    Mostly
    satisfied

    Mixed

    Mostly
    unhappy

    Unhappy

    Terrible

    YOUR
    SCORE

    1. Incomplete Emptying
    Over the past month, how often have you had
    a sensation of not emptying your bladder
    completely after you finish urinating?

    2. Frequency
    Over the past month, how often have you had
    to urinate again less than two hours after you
    have finished urinating?

    3. Intermittency
    Over the past month, how often have you
    found you stopped and started again several
    times when you urinated?

    4. Urgency
    Over the past month, how often have you
    found it difficult to postpone urination?

    5. Weak Stream
    Over the last month, how often have you had
    a weak urinary stream?

    6. Straining
    Over the past month, how often have you had
    to push or strain to begin urination?

    YOUR
    SCORE

    7. Nocturia
    Over the past month how many times did you
    most typically get up each night to urinate
    from the time you went to bed until the time
    you got up in the morning?

    Total I-PSS Score


    Quality of Life due to
    Urinary Symptoms
    If you were to spend the rest of your life with
    your urinary condition just the way it is now,
    how would you feel about that?

    The I-PSS is based on the answers to seven questions concerning urinary symptoms. Each question is assigned points from 0 to 5 indicating
    increasing severity of the particular symptom. The total score can therefore range from 0 to 35 (asymptomatic to very symptomatic).
    Although there are presently no standard recommendations into grading patients with mild, moderate or severe symptoms, patients can be
    tentatively classified as follows: 0 - 7 = mildly symptomatic; 8 - 19 = moderately symptomatic; 20 - 35 = severely symptomatic.
    The International Consensus Committee (ICC) recommends the use of only a single question to assess the patient's quality of life. The
    answers to this question range from "delighted" to "terrible" or 0 to 6. Although this single question may or may not capture the global
    impact of BPH symptoms on quality of life, it may serve as a valuable starting point for doctor-patient conversation.

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