Post by Wayne Kuang MD

Most asked question about IBPSS at 2025 Société Internationale d'Urologie (SIU): --"Has the IBPSS been validated?"-- While we appreciate the global interest in making the IBPSS an academically-validated instrument (like the IPSS, ICIQ-mLUTS, and LURN), the primary intent of the IBPSS is to be a "Communication Tool" for community urologists. It is merely one more option to help with shared decision-making. Michael van Balken Mary Lynne Van Poelgeest-Pomfret The one-page IBPSS keeps all 7 original IPSS questions 100% unchanged ... adds 3 new ones to better reflect Stage III urgency incontinence, Stage IV retention, and patient priorities like sex. So here’s the question: 👉** If 70% of the content is already validated… does the IBPSS still need formal validation? If so, to what degree? _____ _____ Evolving global IBPSS: Mandarin Yi Quan TAN, Greek Petros Sountoulides, Latin American Spanish Dr. Carlos Andrade Becerra, Peninsular Spanish Rodrigo España Navarro MD FEBU ,Portugese FABIO SANT ANNA, Italian Prof. Giovanni Ferrari, Urdu Pashto Sajjad Ahmad German Karl G. Sommer Hannes Cash Czech Marek Hok Turkish @mehmet oder @ersan arda French Juan Francisco Peñafiel Guzmán Korean Ahnyung Lee Arabic TAREQ ALSAODY Masoud Alshammari and Malay Dr Vincent Khor Benjamin Lim Tze Ying European Portuguese Tiago Rodrigues Swedish TAREQ ALSAODY Erik Sagen.... 🙏