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Table 1 International Prostate Symptom Score

From: Prostate embolization: patient selection, clinical management and results

In the past month

Not at all

Less than 1 in 5 times

Less than half the time

About half the time

More than half the time

Almost always

 1. Incomplete Emptyinga: How often have you had the sensation of not emptying your bladder?

0

1

2

3

4

5

 2. Frequencyb: How often have you had to urinate less than every two hours?

0

1

2

3

4

5

 3. Intermittencya: How often have you found you stopped and started again several times when you urinated?

0

1

2

3

4

5

 4. Urgencyb: How often have you found it difficult to postpone urination?

0

1

2

3

4

5

 5. Weak Streama: How often have you had a weak urinary stream?

0

1

2

3

4

5

 6. Straininga: How often have you had to strain to start urination?

0

1

2

3

4

5

 

None

1 time

2 times

3 times

4 times

5 times

 7. Nocturiab: How many times did you typically get up at night to urinate?

0

1

2

3

4

5

  1. aIndicates a question which is utilized in the IPSS voiding subscore
  2. bIndicates a question which is utilized in the IPSS storage subcore