Global and regional quality of care index for prostate cancer: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease study 1990-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most prevalent cancers worldwide, with a significant burden on societies and healthcare providers. We aimed to develop a metric for PCa quality of care that could demonstrate the disease's status in different countries and regions (e.g., socio-demographic index (SDI) quintiles) and assist in improving healthcare policies.

Methods

Basic burden of disease indicators for various regions and age-groups were retrieved from Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2019, which then were used to calculate four secondary indices: mortality to incidence ratio, DALYs to prevalence ratio, prevalence to incidence ratio, and YLLs to YLDs ratio. These four indices were combined through a principal component analysis (PCA), producing the quality of

SUBMITTER: Nowroozi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10131390 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature