Facts Study (Fakten-studie): Non-interventional Study to Investigate Whether Information Provided to Patients Influences Satisfaction With Toviaz Therapy As Perceived by the Patient
Facts Study (Fakten-studie): Non-interventional Study to Investigate Whether Information Provided to Patients Influences Satisfaction With Toviaz Therapy As Perceived by the Patient
Collect information on treatment with Toviaz (fesoterodine) under ordinary prescribing conditions, and to investigate whether additional educational information affects satisfaction with treatment as perceived by the patient.
Patients will be identified and monitored during routine clinical practice visits, and will not be specifically selected as this would interfere with the representativeness of the results. The study will be conducted with office-based urologists and office-based general physicians, practitioners and internists (GPs) in Germany, thus representing a wide range of practices and populations. Each urologist or GP may invite patients to participate who have already been diagnosed with overactive bladder and prescribed Toviaz according to their usual standard of care. Study enrollment stopped on December 31, 2011 due to difficulty in recruiting patients. No safety issues were related to the decision to stop patient enrollment.
Inclusion Criteria:
Patients with increased urinary frequency and/or imperative urgency and/or urge incontinence, as can occur in patients with overactive bladder syndrome, for whom Toviaz was prescribed for treatment of the symptoms.
Patients will complete the OABv8 questionnaire and will need to meet a minimum score in order to be eligible for the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients who meet the contraindications in the Toviaz prescribing information (active ingredient fesoterodine) will be excluded.