Development of a scoring process for the nocturia causality screening tool TANGO: a rationale and methodology

Abstract

A completed Targeting aetiology of nocturia guides outcomes screening tool highlights multiple and co-existing causes of nocturia but is not a symptom score nor an outcome measurement tool. The study aim was to develop a scoring system for the tool in order to rank risk variables and causal domains for the individual presentation of nocturia. Three methods were investigated for weighting responses; each item on the tool was allocated a weighting based on the risk associated with high frequency nocturia (Method 1), the likelihood of modifying the variable with treatment plus either direct/interactive effect (Method 2), or a causal ranking (Method 3). Each domain score was rescaled to a score ..