Quantifying treatment burden: the patient burden score a study of 758 patients across three clinical urologic scenarios.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To develop a comprehensive scale that measures the three burden types of any treatment, including expected, unexpected (complications), and need for ancillary procedures.

Methods

A panel of experts created a scale that assessed the burden of all aspects of treatment, including hospitalization, anesthesia, surgery, and follow-up. The total score is defined as the burden score (BS). BS was calculated retrospectively for patients in three clinical scenarios in urology, each with two acceptable treatment options: patients with a small renal mass (T1a) treated with either partial nephrectomy (PN, 139 patients) or percutaneous ablation (PA, 83 patients), patients with bladder cancer (stages T2-4a, N0, M0) treated with radical cystectomy (RC, 162 patients) or trimodal th

SUBMITTER: Gofrit ON 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11602774 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature