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Record W205269787

[Evaluation of the Global Abdominal Method (ABDO-MG) in the treatment of urinary incontinence].

2005· article· en· W205269787 on OpenAlexaff
Manon Godbout, Mai Le Tu, Alain Watier, Robert Black

Bibliographic record

VenuePubMed · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPelvic floor disorders treatments
Canadian institutionsHôpital FleurimontUniversité de Sherbrooke
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineGynecology
DOInot available

Abstract

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AIMS OF STUDY: Assessment of the Abdominal Global Method (ABDO-MG) in the treatment of stress urinary incontinence or mixed incontinence with stress predominance in women. METHODS: Thirty patients with clinically and urodynamically proven genuine stress incontinence or mixed incontinence with stress predominance were enrolled. Patients had 4 weeks of ABDO-MG technique under supervision and a home unit to do their exercises, then 8 weeks of home exercises without home unit or supervision. We compared the results for each patient before the treatment, at 4 and 12 weeks post initiation of the technique. Main outcome measures were short Pad test with standardized bladder volume and exercises as well as self-report of degrees of incontinence. RESULTS: The data showed improvement in leakage on short Pad test from 82.0 g before versus 38.8 g and 24.8 g at 4 and 12 weeks respectively (p = 0.0002). Seventeen of thirty patients were completely dry. All patients reported improvement of their condition after 4 weeks of exercises and almost cure at 12 weeks (p = 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study demonstrating the clinical efficacy, both objectively and subjectively, of the technique ABDO-MG in the treatment of genuine stress urinary incontinence and mixed incontinence with stress predominance in women. Our data are encouraging, however long-term study with control group is warranted.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.046
GPT teacher head0.329
Teacher spread0.283 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations3
Published2005
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