Challenges of interpreting and improving radical prostatectomy outcomes: Technique, technology, training, and tactical reporting

European Urology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1073-1074

  Hu, Jim C ^a   Yu, Hua Yin ^a   Kowalczyk, Keith J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; CANCER CONTROL; CENSORSHIP; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; LETTER; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SURVIVAL; TECHNOLOGY; TRAINING;

ADULT; AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSTATECTOMY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955611144     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2011.02.028     Document Type: Letter

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