IPSS / AUA Symptom Index (prostate / LUTS)
International Prostate Symptom Score / AUA Symptom Index: seven 0–5 symptom questions summed 0–35 (mild ≤ 7, moderate 8–19, severe 20–35), with a separate quality-of-life item reported alongside.
Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Incomplete emptying
- 2
- Frequency
- 1
- Intermittency
- 1
- Urgency
- 1
- Weak stream
- 1
- Straining
- 1
- Nocturia
- 1
- Quality-of-life / bother
- 2
Result: IPSS 8/35 — moderate symptoms.
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What the result means
- Bands
- 0–7 mild, 8–19 moderate, 20–35 severe lower-urinary-tract symptoms.
What you enter
- Incomplete emptying (0–5)
- Frequency (0–5)
- Intermittency (0–5)
- Urgency (0–5)
- Weak stream (0–5)
- Straining (0–5)
- Nocturia (0–5)
- Quality-of-life / bother (0–6, reported separately)
How this is calculated
- Scoring
- Seven symptom questions each 0–5 summed 0–35. The separate quality-of-life item (0 delighted → 6 terrible) is reported alongside, not added into the total.
Barry MJ, Fowler FJ Jr, O’Leary MP, et al. The American Urological Association symptom index for benign prostatic hyperplasia. J Urol. 1992;148(5):1549-1557. Read the source ↗
A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.