Can a trained non-physician provider perform transrectal ultrasound-guided prostatic biopsies as effectively as an experienced urologist?

BJU International

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 739-744

  Hori, Satoshi ^a,b   Fuge, Oliver ^b   Trabucchi, Kay ^b   Donaldson, Peter ^c   McLoughlin, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WEST SUFFOLK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c IPSWICH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biopsy; nurse practitioners; prostate; prostatic neoplasm; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; RANK SUM TEST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND GUIDED PROSTATIC BIOPSY; UNITED KINGDOM; UROLOGIST;

AGED; BIOPSY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84876283985     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2012.11294.x     Document Type: Article

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