Urologist compliance with AUA best practice guidelines for benign prostatic hyperplasia in medicare population

Urology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-9

  Strope, Seth A ^a   Elliott, Sean P ^b   Saigal, Christopher S ^c   Smith, Alex ^d   Wilt, Timothy J ^e   Wei, John T ^f  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CYSTOSCOPY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICARE; POSTVOID RESIDUAL URINE VOLUME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; URINALYSIS; UROFLOWMETRY;

AGED; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; UNITED STATES; UROLOGY;

EID: 79959735522     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2010.12.087     Document Type: Article

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