For many years, antimuscarinics have been first-line pharmacological treatment for OAB. A recent meta-analysis of randomised, controlled trials on antimuscarinic treatment of OAB concluded that the drugs provide significant improvements in OAB symptoms compared with placebo but that the benefits are of limited clinical significance. The analysis questioned the clinical significance of the trial results, one reason for which was the lack of data on the use of sensitive patient-driven criteria. Traditional symptomatic and urodynamic measures of treatment success may be meaningful to clinicians but often have little meaning to patients. Therefore, patient-reported outcomes (PROs), which provide a subjective measure of a patient's response to treatment, are useful. Recently, clinicians treating OAB have begun to recognize the value of PROs but still overlook the treatment efficacy in terms of patient-reported goal achievement (PGA).