Symptom Severity and Patients' Values in the Decision to Perform a Transurethral Resection of the Prostate

Symptom Severity and Patients' Values in the Decision to Perform a Transurethral Resection of the Prostate

To develop and validate a method to assess patients' subjective values for outcomes of surgical and nonsurgical management of benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), the authors studied 20 patients who had symptoms of BPH. Eight were scheduled for prostatic surgery and 12 were not. They conducted a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Medical decision making 1988, Vol.8 (1), p.1-8
Hauptverfasser: Krumins, Peter E., Fihn, Stephan D., Kent, Daniel L.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Aged
Decision Trees
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Models, Psychological
Predictive Value of Tests
Prostatectomy - psychology
Prostatic Hyperplasia - psychology
Prostatic Hyperplasia - surgery
Quality of Life
Risk Factors
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Zusammenfassung:To develop and validate a method to assess patients' subjective values for outcomes of surgical and nonsurgical management of benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), the authors studied 20 patients who had symptoms of BPH. Eight were scheduled for prostatic surgery and 12 were not. They conducted an interview, including a time-trade-off (TTO) exercise to elicit values for single and combined outcomes and questions about symptoms used to complete a symptom severity score. Expected gain and symptom severity were independent and significant (p
ISSN:0272-989X
1552-681X
DOI:10.1177/0272989X8800800101