Alarm defends its position. Comments to meta-analysis of alarm treatment of nocturnal enuresis
Nevéus, T.
Lakartidningen 98(28-29): 3212-3215
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-7205 PMID: 11496809 Document Number: 536723
Glazener and Evans have, on behalf of the Cochrane Library, performed a systematic literature review of alarm interventions in nocturnal enuresis. An extensive, and probably exhaustive, search yielded 22 studies which were of sufficient methodological quality and in which the enuresis alarm was included as one treatment alternative. From these studies it could be concluded that 1) the enuresis alarm is clearly more effective than non-treatment, 2) different types of enuresis alarms do not differ significantly as regards efficacy, and 3) alarm treatment is not clearly superior or inferior to pharmacological treatment.