In‐Hospital Use of Continence Aids and New‐Onset Urinary Incontinence in Adults Aged 70 and Older

OBJECTIVES: To describe the types of continence aids that older adults hospitalized in acute medical units use and to test the association between use of continence aids and development of new urinary incontinence (UI) at discharge.

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