Book contents
- Manual of Urodynamics for Gynaecologists
- Additional material
- Manual of Urodynamics for Gynaecologists
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Preface to Urodynamics Illustrated
- Chapter 1 Pre-test Assessment of Urinary Dysfunction, Using Patient-Centred Questionnaires
- Chapter 2 The Assessment of Women with Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction, Using Bladder Diaries
- Chapter 3 Pad Testing in the Assessment of Urinary Incontinence in Women
- Chapter 4 Setting Up the Urodynamic Equipment
- Chapter 5 Urodynamic Flow Rate Testing
- Chapter 6 The Cystometrogram
- Chapter 7 Videocystourethrography
- Chapter 8 Ambulatory Urodynamic Monitoring
- Chapter 9 Urodynamic Artefacts
- Chapter 10 The Assessment of Urethral Function
- Chapter 11 Urodynamics in the Neurological Patient
- Chapter 12 Urodynamic Terminology
- Index
- References
Chapter 9 - Urodynamic Artefacts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 April 2020
- Manual of Urodynamics for Gynaecologists
- Additional material
- Manual of Urodynamics for Gynaecologists
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Preface to Urodynamics Illustrated
- Chapter 1 Pre-test Assessment of Urinary Dysfunction, Using Patient-Centred Questionnaires
- Chapter 2 The Assessment of Women with Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction, Using Bladder Diaries
- Chapter 3 Pad Testing in the Assessment of Urinary Incontinence in Women
- Chapter 4 Setting Up the Urodynamic Equipment
- Chapter 5 Urodynamic Flow Rate Testing
- Chapter 6 The Cystometrogram
- Chapter 7 Videocystourethrography
- Chapter 8 Ambulatory Urodynamic Monitoring
- Chapter 9 Urodynamic Artefacts
- Chapter 10 The Assessment of Urethral Function
- Chapter 11 Urodynamics in the Neurological Patient
- Chapter 12 Urodynamic Terminology
- Index
- References
Summary
Data quality and documentation of variance are key for urodynamics studies to be valid, and symptoms must be reproduced to be able to make a diagnosis. Accurate reporting requires knowledge of pathophysiological parameters and the ability to detect artefacts. If inaccuracies are discovered, they should be corrected contemporaneously. Spurious and inaccurate observations are known as artefacts. The Oxford dictionary defines artefacts as something observed in a scientific investigation or experiment that is not naturally present but occurs as a result of the preparative or investigative procedure.’
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- Manual of Urodynamics for Gynaecologists , pp. 71 - 78Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020