PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Stevens, Tyler K.
AU  - Soffer, Edy E.
AU  - Palmer, Robert M.
TI  - Fecal incontinence in elderly patients: Common, treatable, yet often undiagnosed
DP  - 2003 May 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 441--448
VI  - 70
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/70/5/441.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/70/5/441.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2003 May 01; 70
AB  - It is important for primary care physicians to take fecal incontinence seriously and not dismiss it as a normal part of aging. Elderly patients may be reluctant to admit fecal incontinence, so clinicians need to ask about it. Two of the most common causes are fecal impaction (especially in nursing home patients) and rectosphincter dysfunction in people with diabetes.