Authors
Chris G McMahon, Stanley E Althof, Marcel D Waldinger, Hartmut Porst, John Dean, Ira D Sharlip, PG Adaikan, Edgardo Becher, Gregory A Broderick, Jacques Buvat, Khalid Dabees, Annamaria Giraldi, François Giuliano, Wayne JG Hellstrom, Luca Incrocci, Ellen Laan, Eric Meuleman, Michael A Perelman, Raymond C Rosen, David L Rowland, Robert Segraves
Publication date
2008/7
Journal
The journal of sexual medicine
Volume
5
Issue
7
Pages
1590-1606
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Description
Introduction
The medical literature contains several definitions of premature ejaculation (PE). The most commonly quoted definition, the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition-Text Revision, and other definitions of PE are all authority based rather than evidence based, and have no support from controlled clinical and/or epidemiological studies.
Aim
The aim of this article is to develop a contemporary, evidence-based definition of PE.
Methods
In August 2007, the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) appointed several international experts in PE to an Ad Hoc Committee for the Definition of Premature Ejaculation. The committee met in Amsterdam in October 2007 to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of current definitions of PE, to critique the evidence in support of the constructs …
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