{"id":9862,"date":"2022-09-21T20:12:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T20:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/?p=9862"},"modified":"2025-12-30T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:09:00","slug":"prostate-score-ipss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/prostate-score-ipss\/","title":{"rendered":"International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS), a ubiquitous clinical assessment tool, is a standard in the assessment and research of lower urinary tract symptoms in men.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 552px;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 71.4343%; height: 24px;\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>IPSS question<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 28.5656%; height: 24px;\"><strong>Possible answers (points)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 4.6047%; height: 48px; text-align: center;\">1.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 66.8296%; height: 48px;\">How often did you have the feeling that your bladder was not completely empty after urinating?<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 28.5656%; height: 240px;\" rowspan=\"6\">* Never (0)<br \/>\n* Less than 1 time in 5 (1)<br \/>\n* Less than half of the time (2)<br \/>\n* About half the time (3)<br \/>\n* More than half the time (4)<br \/>\n* Almost always (5)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 4.6047%; height: 48px; text-align: center;\">2.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 66.8296%; height: 48px;\">How many times did you have to urinate a second time within 2 hours?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 4.6047%; height: 48px; text-align: center;\">3.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 66.8296%; height: 48px;\">How often have you had to stop and start again several times over while urinating (urinary hesitancy)?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 4.6047%; height: 24px; text-align: center;\">4.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 66.8296%; height: 24px;\">How often have you had difficulty delaying urination?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 4.6047%; height: 24px; text-align: center;\">5.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 66.8296%; height: 24px;\">How often have you had a weak stream when urinating?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 4.6047%; height: 48px; text-align: center;\">6.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 66.8296%; height: 48px;\">How often did you need to make an effort or strain to start urinating?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 144px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 4.6047%; height: 144px; text-align: center;\">7.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 66.8296%; height: 144px;\">On average, how often did you get up to urinate during the night (i.e., between going to bed and getting up in the morning)?<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 28.5656%; height: 144px;\">* Never (0)<br \/>\n* Once (1)<br \/>\n* Twice (2)<br \/>\n* Three times (3)<br \/>\n* Four times (4)<br \/>\n* Five times or more (5)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 144px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 4.6047%; height: 144px; text-align: center;\">8.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 66.8296%; height: 144px;\">How would you feel if your current symptoms around urination did not change in the future?<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 28.5656%; height: 144px;\">* Totally happy (0)<br \/>\n* Happy (1)<br \/>\n* Mostly happy (2)<br \/>\n* A bit unhappy (3)<br \/>\n* Mostly unhappy (4)<br \/>\n* Unhappy (5)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p id=\"__p88\">* 0\u20137 points: mild LUTS; 8\u201319 points: moderate LUTS; 20\u201335 points: severe LUTS<\/p>\n<p id=\"__p89\">LUTS, lower urinary tract symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Yao MW, Green JSA. How international is the International Prostate Symptom Score? A literature review of validated translations of the IPSS, the most widely used self-administered patient questionnaire for male lower urinary tract symptoms. Low Urin Tract Symptoms. 2022 Mar;14(2):92-101. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/34734477\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Miernik A, Gratzke C. Current Treatment for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2020 Dec 4;117(49):843-854. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33593479\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created Sep 21, 2022<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[298],"tags":[1304,1065,2529,515,2530,445,450,690,692],"class_list":["post-9862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urology","tag-internacional","tag-international","tag-ipss","tag-prostate","tag-prostaticos","tag-puntuacion","tag-score","tag-sintomas","tag-symptom"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9862"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9874,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862\/revisions\/9874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}