The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has dropped its opposition to routine
prostate cancer (PCa) screening in favor of a shared decision-making process between men …

Background Using observational data to assess the relative effectiveness of alternative
cancer treatments is limited by patient selection into treatment, which often biases …

Background No randomized trials have compared survival outcomes for men with localized
prostate cancer (PC) being treated with radical prostatectomy (RP) or external beam …

Comparative effectiveness research (CER) seeks to assist consumers, clinicians,
purchasers, and policy makers to make informed decisions to improve health care at both …

Importance Understanding variation in patient-reported outcomes following radical
prostatectomy may inform efforts to reduce morbidity after this procedure. Objective To …

Purpose: Hospital stays have decreased for patients undergoing surgery for urological
cancer. However, there are concerns that patients are being discharged from the hospital …

Page 1 "A withering critique.... Reject[s] the false coin of commerce and technological hype... to
reassert the primacy of the patient." -New England Journal of Medicine Worried Sick A …

Purpose The essence of comparative effectiveness research (CER) is to understand what
health interventions work, for which patients, and under what conditions. The objective of …

The critical use of population-based medical databases for p... : Current Opinion in Urology
The critical use of population-based medical databases for prostate cancer research : Current …

Abstract The United States cannot afford its healthcare system as it currently stands. Society
must soon decide on how to reform Medicare, which contributes to over 47% of healthcare …