Watchful Waiting vs. Immediate Transurethral Prostatectomy for Symptomatic Prostatism

The rate of resection for benign prostatic hypertrophy shows considerable variability among small geographic areas. To help inform the decision to recommend prostatectomy to men with prostatism without signs of chronic retention, we performed a decision analysis to compare the expected outcomes with immediate transurethral resection and watchful waiting. Data used in the model originated from the medical literature, Medicare claims data, and patient interview studies. In our base-case for 70-year-old men, immediate surgery resulted in the loss of 1.01 months of life expectancy, but when adjustments were made for quality of life, immediate surgery was favored with a net utility benefit of 2.94 quality-adjusted life-months. However, the analysis was particularly sensitive to the degree of disutility attributed to the index symptoms of prostatism. We conclude that patient preferences should be the dominant factor in the decision whether to recommend prostatectomy

Development of instruments to measure the quality of breast cancer treatment decisions

Women with early stage breast cancer face a multitude of decisions. The quality of a decision can be measured by the extent to which the treatment reflects what’s most important to an informed patient. Reliable and valid measures of patients’ knowledge and their goals and concerns related to breast cancer treatments are needed to assess decision quality

Why a science of delivery for development?

행사명 : A World Bank and Korea Development Institute Worksho

The science of delivery

행사명 : Frontiers in Development Polic