Influences on androgen deprivation therapy prescribing before surgery in high-risk prostate cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To understand how best to further reduce the inappropriate use of pre-surgical androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), we investigated the determinants (influences) of ADT prescribing in urologists in two European countries using an established behavioural science approach. Additionally, we sought to understand how resource limitations caused by COVID-19 influenced this practice. Identification of key determinants, of undistributed and disrupted practice, will aid development of future strategies to reduce inappropriate ADT prescribing in current and future resource-limited settings.

Participants and methods

We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with urologists practicing in Italy and the UK from February to July 2022. Interviews focussed on undisrupted

SUBMITTER: Dunsmore J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11420097 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature