Management Strategies and Patient Selection After a Hospital Funding Reform for Prostate Cancer Surgery in Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Hospital funding reforms for prostate cancer surgery may have altered management of localized prostate cancer in the province of Ontario, Canada.

Objective

To determine whether changes in hospital funding policy aimed at improving health care quality and value were associated with changes in the management of localized prostate cancer or the characteristics of patients receiving radical prostatectomy (RP) for localized prostate cancer.

Design, setting, and participants

This population-based, interrupted time series study used linked population-based administrative data regarding adults in Ontario with incidental localized prostate cancer and those who underwent RP for localized prostate cancer. Patients who underwent RP were compared with patients who under

SUBMITTER: Wettstein MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6724173 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature