Surgical quality is more than volume: the association between changing urologists and complications for patients with localized prostate cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the association of changing urologists on surgical complications in men with prostate cancer.

Data sources/study setting

Registry and administrative claims data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare database from 1995 to 2005.

Study design

A cross-sectional observational study of men with prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy.

Methods

Subjects were classified as having "changed urologists" if they had a different urologist who diagnosed their cancer from the one who performed their surgery. "Doubly robust" propensity score weighted multivariable logistic regression models were used to investigate the effect of changing urologists on 30-day surgical complications, late urinary complications, and long-te

SUBMITTER: DuGoff EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4110202 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature