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- Title
Open radical prostatectomy in the elderly: a case for concern?
- Authors
Trinh, Quoc-Dien; Schmitges, Jan; Sun, Maxine; Shariat, Shahrokh F.; Sukumar, Shyam; Tian, Zhe; Bianchi, Marco; Sammon, Jesse; Perrotte, Paul; Rogers, Craig G.; Graefen, Markus; Peabody, James O.; Menon, Mani; Karakiewicz, Pierre I.
- Abstract
Study Type - Therapy (case series) Level of Evidence 4 What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Adverse outcomes after radical prostatectomy are more often recorded in the elderly. In the USA, elderly patients undergoing radical prostatectomy are treated at institutions where suboptimal outcomes are recorded. OBJECTIVE To assess the rate of adverse outcomes after open radical prostatectomy (ORP) in the elderly and to examine the effect of annual hospital caseload (AHC) and academic institutional status on adverse outcomes in these of patients.
- Subjects
PROSTATECTOMY; ELDER care; TUMOR surgery; SURGICAL complications; GERIATRIC surgery
- Publication
BJU International, 2012, Vol 109, Issue 9, p1335
- ISSN
1464-4096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10554.x