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[Diagnosis and treatment of women with urinary incontinence at Danish gynecologic departments]. Diagnostik og behandling af kvinder med urin-inkontinens på danske gynaekologiske afdelinger. The routine practice in the diagnosis and treatment of urinary incontinence was investigated by means of a questionnaire to which all 32 departments replied. Miction charts were employed routinely in 17 departments and for selected patients in eight departments. Weighing of diapers was employed in 13 departments for all patients investigated for incontinence, but only for selected patients in ten departments. Cystometry was employed in cases of stress-incontinence in 23 departments and in cases of urge-incontinence in 30 departments. As regards the choice of operative treatment, 22 departments stated that they would employ abdominal intervention in cases of anterior suspension defect and vaginal operation in posterior suspension defects. Other departments perferred an abdominal or vaginal approach without employment of guiding miction cysto-urethrography. It is concluded that there are great differences in the routine practices in Danish gynaecological departments in the diagnosis and treatment of utinary incontinence. This appears to be a suitable field for so called reference programmes.