Prevalence of a physician-assigned diagnosis of prostatitis: The olmsted county study of urinary symptoms and health status among men

Urology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 578-584

  Roberts, Rosebud O ^a   Lieber, Michael M ^b   Rhodes, Thomas ^b   Girman, Cynthia J ^b   Bostwick, David G ^b   Jacobsen, Steven J ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PROSTATITIS; CHRONICITY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY CARE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSURIA; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSTATITIS;

EID: 0031923783     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(98)00034-X     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Drach GW, Fair WR, Meares EM, and Stamey TA: Classification of benign diseases associated with prostatic pain: prostatitis or prostatodynia? J Urol 120: 266, 1978.
2. Krieger JN, Egan KJ, Ross SO, Jacobs R, and Berger RE: Chronic pelvic pains represent the most prominent urogenital symptoms of "chronic prostatitis." Urology 48: 715-722, 1996.
3. Brunner H, Weidner W, and Schiefer H-G: Studies on the role of Ureaplasma urealyticum and Mycoplasma hominis in prostatitis. J Infect Dis 147: 807-813, 1983.
4. Stamey TA: Pathogenesis and Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1980, pp 343-429.
5. National Center for Health Statistics: Advance data from vital and health statistics: nos. 61-70. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat 16: 1-10, 1993.
6. Schappert SM: National ambulatory medical care survey, 1991 summary. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat 13: 61, 1994.
7. Chute CG, Panser LA, Girman CJ, Oesterling JE, Guess HA, Jacobsen SJ, and Lieber MM: The prevalence of prostatism: a population-based survey of urinary symptoms. J Urol 150: 85-89, 1993.
8. Jacobsen SJ, Guess HA, Panser L, Girman CJ, Chute CG, Oesterling JE, and Lieber MM: A population-based study of health care-seeking behavior for treatment of urinary symptoms: the Olmsted County Study of Urinary Symptoms and Health Status Among Men. Arch Fam Med 2: 729-735, 1993.
9. Epstein RS, Deverka PA, Chute CG, Panser L, Oesterling JE, Lieber MM, Schwartz S, and Patrick D: Validation of a new quality of life questionnaire for benign prostatic hyperplasia. J Clin Epidemiol 45: 1431-1445, 1992.
10. Kurland LT, and Molgaard CA: The patient record in epidemiology. Sci Am 245: 54-63, 1981.
11. Melton LJ III: History of the Rochester epidemiology project. Mayo Clin Proc 71: 266-274, 1996.
12. Kaplan EL, and Meier P: Nonparametric estimation from incomplete observations. Am Stat Assoc J 53: 457-481, 1958.
13. Cicchetti DV, and Feinstein AR: High agreement but low kappa: II. Resolving the paradoxes. J Clin Epidemiol 43: 551-556, 1990.
14. Schaeffer AJ, Wendel EF, Dunn JK, and Grayhack JT: Prevalence and significance of prostatic inflammation. J Urol 125: 215-219, 1981.
15. Weidner W, Schiefer HG, Krauss H, Jantos CH, Friedrich HJ, and Altmannsberger M: Chronic prostatitis: a thorough search for etiologically involved microorganisms in 1,461 patients. Infection 19 (suppl 3): S119-S125, 1991.
16. Collins MM, Stafford RS, O'Leary MP, and Barry MJ: How common is prostatitis? A national survey of physician visits. J Urol (in press).
17. Meares EM, and Stamey TA: Bacteriologic localization patterns in bacterial prostatitis and urethritis. Invest Urol 5: 492-518, 1968.
18. Nickel JC: New concepts in the pathogenesis and treatment of prostatitis. Curr Opin Urol 2: 37-43, 1992.
19. Adams PF, and Marano MA: Current estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 1994. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat 10: 86, 1995.
20. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK): Chronic prostatitis collaborative clinical studies. NIH Guide Grants Contracts [on-line] 26: 1-8, 1997.