Urinary incontinence

Also known as: OAB · overactive bladder · stress incontinence

Free to read — no account needed. Sign in only to bookmark this disease and track your study progress.

United StatesNKF/AUA

Current

Surgical Treatment of Female Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI): AUA/SUFU Guideline

AUA / SUFU · 2023 · 2023 amendment

A joint AUA/SUFU guideline on evaluating and surgically treating stress urinary incontinence in women, covering index and non-index patients, surgical options and special cases.

AUA records the guideline as published 2017 and amended 2023. source
AUA separately maintains an AUA/SUFU guideline on idiopathic overactive bladder covering urgency incontinence. source

Verify against original ↗

EuropeERA/EAU (global: KDIGO)

Current

EAU Guidelines on Non-neurogenic Female LUTS

European Association of Urology (EAU) · 2026

EAU's guideline on the diagnosis and management of non-neurogenic lower urinary tract symptoms in women, including urinary incontinence. It grew out of EAU's earlier standalone urinary incontinence guideline.

EAU states the first EAU Urinary Incontinence Guidelines appeared in 2021 and were subsequently broadened to include other female LUTS. source
EAU states all sections of the previous 2023 Female LUTS Guidelines were fully updated following a full literature search. source

Verify against original ↗

US vs EU key differences

Scope differs: the American guideline in use here addresses surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence, whereas the EAU covers non-neurogenic female LUTS as a whole, including storage, voiding and post-micturition symptoms, urgency and mixed incontinence, and overactive bladder. source
The European guideline was deliberately broadened in 2023 from a urinary-incontinence document to a full female LUTS document, so a stress-incontinence surgery question sits inside a much larger diagnostic framework than in the US text. source
Version currency differs: the EAU 2026 edition reflects a complete literature refresh of the 2023 text, while the corresponding American surgical guideline dates from 2023. source

What changed recently

US2017 → 2023 amendment2023-06-01
The 2023 amendment was the first update to the AUA/SUFU 2017 female stress urinary incontinence guideline, incorporating literature published through February 2022. Revisions were concentrated in the surgical treatment sections, while the patient evaluation and cystoscopy or urodynamics sections were left unchanged and patient counselling was only minimally revised.
source ↗curation confidence 90%

See the full update feed for changes across every system.