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- Title
Prostate cancer imaging trends after a nationwide effort to discourage inappropriate prostate cancer imaging.
- Authors
Makarov, Danil V; Loeb, Stacy; Ulmert, David; Drevin, Linda; Lambe, Mats; Stattin, Pär
- Abstract
Reducing inappropriate use of imaging to stage incident prostate cancer is a challenging problem highlighted recently as a Physician Quality Reporting System quality measure and by the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Urological Association in the Choosing Wisely campaign. Since 2000, the National Prostate Cancer Register (NPCR) of Sweden has led an effort to decrease national rates of inappropriate prostate cancer imaging by disseminating utilization data along with the latest imaging guidelines to urologists in Sweden. We sought to determine the temporal and regional effects of this effort on prostate cancer imaging rates.
- Publication
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2013, Vol 105, Issue 17, p1306
- ISSN
1460-2105
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/djt175