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BACKGROUND
Men with major comorbidities are at risk for overtreatment of prostate cancer due to uncertainty regarding their life expectancy. We sought to characterize life expectancy and treatment in a population‐based cohort of men with differing ages and comorbidity burdens at diagnosis.
METHODS
We sampled 96,032 men aged ≥66 years with early‐stage prostate cancer who had Gleason scores ≤7 and...
BACKGROUNDThis study sought to compare the effectiveness of aggressive versus nonaggressive treatment in reducing cancer‐specific mortality for older men with early‐stage prostate cancer across differing comorbid disease burdens at diagnosis.
METHODSIn total, the authors sampled 140,553 men aged ≥66 years with early‐stage prostate cancer who were diagnosed between 1991 and 2007 from the Surveillance,...
AimsTo develop a means to measure the quality of care provided to women treated for urinary incontinence (UI) through the development of quality‐of‐care indicators (QIs).
MethodsWe performed an extensive literature review to develop a set of potential quality indicators for the management of UI. QIs were modeled after those previously described in the Assessing the Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE)...
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