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1. Abstract Submission

All submissions must be made via the ICS website www.ics.org/2022/abstracts by 4 April 2022.
The ICS Scientific Committee will decide on the presentation category for presentation abstracts;
- Podium Presentation
- E-Poster
All accepted abstracts will be published on the ICS website exactly as submitted.
Podium Presentations will be published in the ICS Journal, Continence.
- View definitions of all presentation types at ICS Meetings
Abstracts previously published or presented at an international meeting, comparable to the ICS, are rejected. If your abstract is accepted for ICS you will be asked to withdraw the same abstract from any other international meetings you may have also submitted to.

2. Anonymity for most objective review

The abstract text must be anonymous. i.e. without any authors’ or institutions’ names. Do not include the name of the hospital, university or city.
All abstract identification details, references, ethical approval, and disclosures will be taken separately as part of the online submission process and will be merged again with the abstract text after review.

A clear statement on ethical approval must be given, or stated as NONE.
For studies in humans, ethical committee approval must be clearly identified and patients’ informed consent must be stated.
For studies in animals, conformity with institutional/national guidelines for the care and use of animals must be declared, and when applicable the animal ethics committee be identified.

The format requested are "extended abstracts" which must be at least 400 words but not more than 1200 words.
Do not use characters or symbols from any font set other than Arial.
Images, figures, graphs and tables can be uploaded with a maximum total of 2 per abstract.
Abstracts must use the sections given:
- Hypothesis / aims of study
- Study design, materials and methods
- Results
- Interpretation of results
- Concluding message
  Missing sections will cause rejection.

Abstracts must be written in English.
All abstracts must contain adequate data. Case reports or study proposals only will not be accepted.
Strictly use ICS Terminology. Please note that the use of obsolete terminology may cause rejection. View current ICS Terminology reports.
For studies comparing results between groups, sample size (power) calculations must be included.
For RCTs any non-adherence to the CONSORT guidelines must be specified and justified.
Studies must not be split into multiple abstracts. This could lead to each abstract being downgraded.
Preliminary Data – people publishing a study in progress (not an interim analysis). Data submitted must be that presented at the meeting.
Abstracts must specify either:
- Pure and Applied Science / Translational
- Clinical
Abstracts must specify either:
- Surgical
- Not Surgical
Abstracts must specify one Broad Category :

CATEGORIES
Anatomy / Biomechanics	Neurourology
Anorectal / Bowel Dysfunction	Nocturia
Conservative Management	Overactive Bladder
Continence Care Products / Devices / Technologies	Paediatrics
E-Health	Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Ethics	Pelvic Pain Syndromes
Female Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) / Voiding Dysfunction	Pharmacology
Female Sexual Dysfunction New!	Prevention and Public Health
Female Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI)	Prostate Clinical / Surgical
Geriatrics / Gerontology	Quality of Life / Patient and Caregiver Experiences
Health Services Delivery	Rehabilitation
Imaging	Research Methods / Techniques
Male Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) / Voiding Dysfunction	Transgender Health
Male Sexual Dysfunction New!	Urethra Male / Female
Male Stress Urinary Incontinence (Post Prostatectomy Incontinence)	Urodynamics

Keywords
Anal Incontinence	Grafts: Synthetic	Nursing	Questionnaire
Anatomy	Hormone Therapy	Outcomes Research Methods	Rehabilitation
Animal Study	Imaging	Overactive Bladder	Retrospective Study
Pure and Applied Science	Incontinence	Pad Test	Sensory Dysfunction
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)	Infection, Urinary Tract	Pain, Pelvic/Perineal	Sexual Dysfunction
Biochemistry	Infection, other	Painful Bladder Syndrome/Interstitial Cystitis (IC)	Spinal Cord Injury
Biomechanics	Male	Pain, other	Stem Cells / Tissue Engineering
Bladder Outlet Obstruction	Mathematical or statistical modelling	Pathophysiology	Stress Urinary Incontinence
Bowel Evacuation Dysfunction	Mixed Urinary Incontinence	Pediatrics	Surgery
Cell Culture	Molecular Biology	Pelvic Floor	Terminology
Clinical Trial	Motor Dysfunction	Pelvic Organ Prolapse	Transgender
Conservative Treatment	Multiple Sclerosis	Pharmacology	Underactive Bladder
Constipation	New Instrumentation	Physiotherapy	Urgency Urinary Incontinence
Detrusor Overactivity	New Devices	Physiology	Urgency, Fecal
Detrusor Hypocontractility	Neuromodulation	Pre-Clinical testing	Urgency/Frequency
Female	Neuropathies: Central	Prevention	Urodynamics Techniques
Fistulas	Neuropathies: Peripheral	Prolapse Symptoms	Urodynamics Equipment
Gerontology	Nocturia	Prospective Study	Voiding Diary
Grafts: Biological	Nocturnal Enuresis	Quality of Life (QoL)	Voiding Dysfunction

First Authors (presenters) can only be first authors on a maximum of three submitted abstracts.

A maximum of 3 references must be listed separately, and referred to in the abstract text only with numbers in brackets.

Abstract Title:

Abstract Text:

Minimum 400 words; maximum 1200 words and maximum 2 figures/tables/images/graphs
All subtitle sections filled adequately.
ICS-IUGA Standards in Terminology and guidelines adhered to.

Separately Submitted: