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Responsiveness of the National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI)K J Propert
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
Qual Life Res 15:299-305. 2006..We assessed the responsiveness of the NIH-CPSI to change over time and defined thresholds for changes perceptible to patients...- The UCLA Prostate Cancer Index: development, reliability, and validity of a health-related quality of life measureM S Litwin
Department of Urology, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 1738, USA
Med Care 36:1002-12. 1998..This study sought to develop and evaluate a self-administered, multiitem, disease-specific instrument to capture the health concerns central to the quality of life of men treated for early stage prostate cancer... - The association between socioeconomic status, health insurance coverage, and quality of life in men with prostate cancerD F Penson
Department of Urology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 54:350-8. 2001..These findings have important ramifications for clinicians, researchers and policy makers... 
From bad to worse: comorbidity severity and quality of life after treatment for early-stage prostate cancerT J Daskivich
Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1738, USA
Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 13:320-7. 2010..Although comorbidity groups experienced similar long-term declines from baseline HRQOL after treatment, men with more severe comorbidity had significantly lower baseline scores and therefore poorer long-term HRQOL...- Quality of life before death for men with prostate cancer: results from the CaPSURE databaseM S Litwin
Department of Urology and Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
J Urol 165:871-5. 2001..Increased attention to quality of life changes may provide new clinical opportunities to enhance quality of care in the final year of life in these men... - Long-term quality of life in disadvantaged men with prostate cancer on androgen-deprivation therapyC Sevilla
Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 15:237-43. 2012..To explore the effects of androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) on general, disease-specific and hormone-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among minority men... - Education as a predictor of quality of life outcomes among disadvantaged menJ S Augustus
Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1738, USA
Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 12:253-8. 2009..Because of the close relationship between income and education, broader studies into the associations of these variables and prostate cancer outcomes are needed... - Distress and social dysfunction following prostate cancer treatment: a longitudinal cross-cultural comparison of Japanese and American menS Namiki
Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1738, USA
Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 12:67-71. 2009..05). The bother associated with urinary and bowel dysfunction after surgery or brachytherapy for prostate cancer has a greater impact on social function in American men than in Japanese men... - An instrument to measure patient satisfaction with healthcare in an observational database: results of a validation study using data from CaPSURED P Lubeck
University of California, San Francisco 94109, USA
Am J Manag Care 6:70-6. 2000..To validate a satisfaction measure for use in longitudinal, prospective studies of patient care... - Relationship of first-year costs of treating localized prostate cancer to initial choice of therapy and stage at diagnosis: results from the CAPSURE databaseD F Penson
Department of Urology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Urology 57:499-503. 2001..This supports the notion that cost savings may be possible with earlier detection of disease or by minimizing the use of hormonal adjuvant therapy... - Disparities in the utilization of live donor renal transplantationJ L Gore
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Am J Transplant 9:1124-33. 2009..We identified significant racial and socioeconomic disparities in the utilization of LDRT. Educational initiatives and dissemination of processes that enable increased utilization of LDRT may address these disparities... - Predictors of utilities for health states in early stage prostate cancerC S Saigal
Department of Urology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1738, USA
J Urol 166:942-6. 2001..Ethnicity appears to modify some effects of other variables on patient preference. Utility assessment provides a quantitative tool to aid physicians in counseling patients when making treatment decisions for localized prostate cancer... - Improvement in emotional well-being and relationships of users of sildenafilN M Paige
Division of General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Urol 166:1774-8. 2001..001). CONCLUSIONS: Sildenafil users reported significant improvements in erectile and sexual function that were associated with positive changes in emotional well-being and the sexual partner relationships with their sexual partner... 
Rescoring the NIH chronic prostatitis symptom index: nothing newJ Q Clemens
Department of Urology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 5330, USA
Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 12:285-7. 2009..80). We conclude that although the rescored NIH-CPSI provides better face validity than the standard scoring algorithm, it requires additional calculation efforts and yields only marginal improvements in performance...- Life after radical prostatectomy: a longitudinal studyM S Litwin
Departments of Urology and Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Urol 166:587-92. 2001..Patients should be encouraged that recovery may continue for months or years after surgery... - Health-related quality of life in men with erectile dysfunctionM S Litwin
Department of Urology, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90095-1738, USA
J Gen Intern Med 13:159-66. 1998..With increased attention to patient-centered medical outcomes, greater emphasis has been placed on such variables as HRQOL. This should be particularly true for a patient-driven symptom, such as erectile dysfunction... - Racial differences in the cost of treating men with early-stage prostate cancerJ Brandeis
Department of Urology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095-1738, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 49:297-303. 2001..Most of this difference was generated by longer duration of XRT treatments. CONCLUSIONS: In early-stage prostate cancer, charges for RP and XRT in African-American men are higher when compared with those for White men... - Health-related quality of life in men with metastatic prostate cancer: the misleading effect of lead-time biasM S Litwin
Department of Urology, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UCLA School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 1738 USA
BJU Int 91:9-13. 2003.... - Measuring disease specific quality of life in localized prostate cancer: the Dutch experienceI J Korfage
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Qual Life Res 12:459-64. 2003..We aimed at developing and testing a Dutch health-related quality of life measure for localized prostate cancer patients... - Sociodemographic factors associated with postprostatectomy radiotherapyT L Krupski
Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine, School of Public Health, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1738, USA
Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 8:184-8. 2005..To determine if nonclinical factors affect the use of adjuvant radiation therapy after surgical resection of the prostate gland... - Quality of life after radical treatment of prostate cancer: validation of the Italian version of the University of California-Los Angeles Prostate Cancer IndexM Gacci
Department of Urology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Urology 66:338-43. 2005..To validate an Italian version of the University of California-Los Angeles Prostate Cancer Index (UCLA-PCI)... - Quality of life in young men after radical prostatectomyJ L Wright
Department of Urology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 11:67-73. 2008..Baseline scores are strongly associated with post-RP scores and severity of declines. Current relationships and use of sexual aids have significant roles in post-RP bother... - Sexual function following radical prostatectomy: a prospective longitudinal study of cultural differences between Japanese and American menS Namiki
Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90095 1738, CA, USA
Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 11:298-302. 2008..57; 95% CI=0.44-0.75). This study demonstrates that Japanese and American men experience different patterns of recovery of their sexual function and bother after RP. Ethnicity may be a contributing factor... - Impact of diet on prostate cancer: a reviewG A Sonn
Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095-1738, USA
Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 8:304-10. 2005..Despite confounding factors present in clinical studies assessing the effect of diet on cancer risk, the data remain compelling that a variety of nutrients may prevent the development and progression of prostate cancer...