Quality Articles

OBJECTIVE - To evaluate the impact of an intervention regarding the adequate use and improvement in the care of indwelling urinary catheters (IUC) and the frequency of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) in hospitalised patients.

This study aimed to assess the quality and readability of patient education information available on the internet on testicular cancer.

Internet searches were performed using the keywords 'testicular cancer', 'testicular tumour', 'testicular tumor', 'testicular malignancy', 'germ cell tumour' and 'germ cell tumor' using Google, Yahoo! And Bing search engines with default settings.

To develop quality assessment tool to evaluate surgical performance for robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) program.

A prospectively maintained quality assurance database of 425 consecutive RARCs performed by a single surgeon between 2005 and 2015 was retrospectively reviewed.

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is underutilized in bladder cancer patients who undergo radical cystectomy. However, the quality of regimens used in this setting remains largely unknown.

To determine utilization treatment patterns and survival outcomes according to regimens administered.

To assess a large national sample of bladder cancer pathology reports to determine if they contained the components necessary for clinical decision making.

We examined a random sample of 507 bladder cancer pathology reports from the national Veterans Administration (VA) Corporate Data Warehouse to assess whether each included information on the four report components explicitly recommended by the College of American Pathologists' protocol for the examination of such specimens: histology, grade, presence vs.

The delivery of high quality prostate cancer care is increasingly important for health systems, physicians and patients. Integrated delivery systems may have the greatest ability to deliver high quality, efficient care.

To evaluate a 12-month long-distance prostate MRI quality assurance (QA) program.

The need for IRB approval was waived for this prospective longitudinal QA effort. One academic institution experienced with prostate MRI [~ 1000 examinations/year (Site 2)] partnered with a private institution 240 miles away that was starting a new prostate MRI program (Site 1).

Despite recent interest in the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of prostate cancer, the acceptance of expectant management for patients with indolent prostate cancer has remained slow. Moreover, the intensity of surveillance strategies remains to be elucidated.

To determine the relationship between long-term prostate cancer survivors' symptom burden and information needs.

We used population-based data from the Michigan Prostate Cancer Survivor Study (n=2,499).

The Internet is one of the major sources for health information for patients and their families, particularly when patients face serious life-threatening conditions such as kidney cancer in adults. In this study, we evaluate the content and quality of health information on adult kidney cancer using several validated instruments.

Despite efforts to define metrics assessing hospital-level quality for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) surgical care there remains a paucity of real-world data validating their ability to benchmark performance.

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a common medical condition that requires high-quality evidence to guide clinical practice; however, systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analyses (MAs) often vary in quality, raising concerns regarding the validity of their results.