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In the past, doctors recommended a particular treatment because, in their experience, most patients said that they were “better” after receiving it. In the last two decades, we have realized that this is not good enough. We need objective measures by which we can determine what percentage of patients are “cured” (normal) or at least have greater than 50 % reduction in symptoms, after any given treatment.
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Moore, K.H. (2013). Outcome Measures Used to Assess Response. In: Urogynecology: Evidence-Based Clinical Practice. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4291-1_5
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