Urinary Incontinence in Hospitalised Elderly Patients: Do Nurses Recognise and Manage the Problem?

Table 1

Patients’ characteristics.

	Incontinent (𝑛=41)		Continent (𝑛=37)
Gender
Women	30	(56.6%)	23	(43.4%)
Men	11	(44.0%)	14	(56.0%)
Mean age in years	76	(7.7 SD)	74	(7.6 SD)
Mean length of stay in days	12.5	(8.5 SD)	13.4	(11.1 SD)
Units
Internal  Medicine	18	(58.1%)	13	(41.9%)
Orthopaedics	23	(48.9%)	24	(51.1%)