TY - JOUR T1 - Review: pelvic floor muscle training is effective for stress or mixed urinary incontinence in women JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 116 LP - 116 DO - 10.1136/ebn.4.4.116 VL - 4 IS - 4 A2 - , Y1 - 2001/10/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/4/4/116.abstract N2 - Hay-Smith EJC, Bø K, Berghmans LCM, et al. Pelvic floor muscle training for urinary incontinence in women. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2001;(1):CD001407(latest version 20 Nov 2000). QUESTION: Is pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) effective and safe for women with symptoms or urodynamic diagnoses of stress, urge, or mixed incontinence?The Cochrane Incontinence Group trials register (May 2000), the Cochrane Rehabilitation and Related Therapies Field (to 1998), Medline (1980–98), EMBASE/Excerpta Medica (1980–98), the database of the Dutch National Institute of Allied Health Professions (to 1998), Physiotherapy Index (to 1998), the proceedings of the International Continence Society (1980–2000), some physiotherapy journals, and reference lists of relevant papers. Also, experts in the field were contacted.Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of PFMT in women with symptoms or urodynamic diagnoses of stress, urge, or mixed incontinence. PFMT … ER -