ISO 16021:2024
Absorbent incontinence products for urine and/or faeces — Basic principles for evaluation of single-use adult products from the perspective of users and caregivers

Standard No.

ISO 16021:2024

Release Date

2024

Published By

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

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ISO 16021:2024

Scope

This document provides guidelines and requirements for designing and conducting an evaluation of singleuse adult incontinence absorbing products. It provides guidelines and requirements on creating data collection tools. In particular, it provides a framework for eliciting and recording the views of users and their carers on the acceptability of products. In addition, a product diary is described which can help to quantify some parameters of product use, such as wear times, the mass of urine absorbed by the product and the severity of any leakage from it. This document does not cover direct comparison between products based on statistical parameters, neither does it provide guidelines on measuring the clinical efficacy of products; that is available in ISO 14155.

ISO 16021:2024 history

• 2024 ISO 16021:2024 Absorbent incontinence products for urine and/or faeces — Basic principles for evaluation of single-use adult products from the perspective of users and caregivers
• 2000 ISO 16021:2000 Urine-absorbing aids - Basic principles for evaluation of single-use adult-incontinence-absorbing aids from the perspective of users and caregivers

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