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

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To improve benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) care, the American Urological Association created the best practice guidelines for BPH management. We evaluated the trends in use of BPH-related evaluative tests and the extent to which urologists comply with the guidelines for these evaluative tests.

Methods

From a 5% random sample of Medicare claims from 1999 to 2007, we created a cohort of 10,248 patients with new visits for BPH to 748 urologists. The trends in use of BPH-related testing were determined. After classifying urologists by compliance with the best practice guidelines, the models were fit to determine the differences in the use of BPH-related testing among urologists. Additional models were used to define the extent to which individual BPH-related tests

SUBMITTER: Strope SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3126893 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature