Factors Associated with Decision Aid Use in Localized Prostate Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Decision aids have been found to improve patients' knowledge of treatments and decrease decisional regrets. Despite these benefits, there is not widespread use of decision aids for newly diagnosed prostate cancer (PCa). This analysis investigates factors that impact men's choice to use a decision aid for newly diagnosed prostate cancer.

Materials and methods

This is a retrospective analysis of a PCa registry from the Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative (MUSIC). We included data from men with newly diagnosed, clinically localized PCa seen from 2018-21 at practices offering a PCa decision aid (Personal Patient Profile-Prostate; P3P). The primary outcome was men's registration to use P3P. We fit a multilevel logistic regression model with patient-level

SUBMITTER: Lane GI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9205471 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature