Clinician Factors Associated With Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening in Older Veterans With Limited Life Expectancy.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite guidelines recommending against prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening in elderly men with limited life expectancy, PSA screening remains common.

Objective

To identify clinician characteristics associated with PSA screening rates in older veterans stratified by life expectancy.

Design, setting, and participants

Cross-sectional study of 826 286 veterans 65 years or older eligible for PSA screening who had VA laboratory tests performed in 2011 in the VA health care system.

Main outcomes and measures

The primary outcome was the percentage of men with a screening PSA test in 2011. Limited life expectancy was defined as age of at least 85 years with Charlson comorbidity score of 1 or greater or age of at least 65 years with Charlson comorbidity

SUBMITTER: Tang VL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5362377 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature