Outcome analysis and patient satisfaction following octant transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy: A prospective study comparing consultant urologist, specialist registrar and nurse practitioner in urology

Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 122-125

  Henderson, Ali ^b   Andrich, D E ^a   Pietrasik, M E ^a   Higgins, D ^b   Montgomery, B ^b   Langley, S E M ^a,b  

^a ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b FRIMLEY PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Nurse; Professions allied to medicine; Prostate biopsy; Transrectal ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSE TRAINING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATE DISEASE; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UROLOGY;

AGED; BIOPSY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; UROLOGY;

EID: 3142725626     PISSN: 13657852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.pcan.4500696     Document Type: Article

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