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Friday, July 13, 2007
This presentation is part of : Chronic Care Strategies
Evaluating the NGC Evidence Based Practice Guideline of Prompted Voiding for Use in Korea
Myungae Kim, RN, PhD and Myonghwa Park, RN, PhD. College of Nursing, Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea
Learning Objective #1: understand the actual urinary incontinence management in Korean clinical settings.
Learning Objective #2: know the applicability of the evidence based guideline for Lyons & Spect(2001) in NGC for use in Korea.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the applicability of the evidence based guideline for prompted voiding by Lyons & Specht (2001) in National Guideline ClearinghouseTM for use in Korea based on the experts' opinions. Method: The target expert group consisted of 8 registered nurses, 6 physicians, and 5 nursing professors who are experts in urine incontinence. This study used questionnaire survey. The appropriateness, applicability, and the present application of each recommendation in the guideline were analyzed with descriptive statistics using the SPSS program. and with content analysis for the experts' opinions. Result: The scores on each recommendation's appropriateness showed  the high degree of agreements among nurses, physicians, and nursing professors. However, the recommendation forꡐuse of oxybutinin' was lowerly scored as 5.89. It was notable that the most recommendations were scored lower for applicability compared with appropriateness. The reasons for lower scores for applicability were the lack of clinicians' knowledge of assessment and management, and the lack of resources in clinical settings in Korea. Conclusion: This study will augment the understanding of the actual urine incontinence management in Korean clinical settings and can be used as the baseline data for further study of tailoring the international guidelines into local and national clinical settings.