This paper's authors.have undertaken to establish, and have largely succeeded in establishing, the potential utility of a new visual prostate symptom score. Building on a prior analog scale assessing the force of urinary stream as well as incorporating a quality-of-life assessment similar to the Wong Baker Faces Pain scale, a scale often cited in the literature, serves to lend further credence to the concept. Overall, with a sample population considered small by many standards, the authors demonstrate that the Visual Prostate Symptom Score (VPSS) does in fact correlate with the IPSS as well as objective measure of urinary flow rate. This is a potentially very important endpoint, given how laborious proper urinary flow rates can be to obtain from patients and how spurious the results can be. The novelty of the VPSS concept and its use to better assess and quantify urinary symptoms in men is worthy of further investigation and possibly development before adoption for wider distribution and use among practitioners, in our speciality worldwide.
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