Patient driven care in the management of prostate cancer: analysis of the United States military healthcare system

BMC Urology

Research Article

Wei Jiang¹  Ritam Chowdhury¹  Muhammad Ali Chaudhary¹  Joel S. Weissman¹  Jeffrey J. Leow¹  Peter A. Learn²  Steven L. Chang³  Matthew Mossanen³ 

[1] Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA;Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA;Division of Urology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA;

关键词: TRICARE;    Robotic surgery;    Prostatectomy;    Patient preference;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12894-017-0247-x

 received in 2017-03-10, accepted in 2017-07-06,  发布年份 2017

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundPatient preferences are assumed to impact healthcare resource utilization, especially treatment options. There is limited data exploring this phenomenon. We sought to identify factors associated with patients transferring care for prostatectomy, from military to civilian facilities, and the receipt of minimally invasive radical prostatectomy (MIRP).MethodsRetrospective review of 2006-2010 TRICARE data identified men diagnosed with prostate cancer (ICD-9 185) receiving open radical prostatectomy (ORP; ICD-9: 60.5) or MIRP (ICD-9 60.5 + 54.21/17.42). Patients diagnosed at military facilities but underwent surgery at civilian facilities were defined as “transferring care”. Logistic regression models identified predictors of transferring care for patients diagnosed at military facilities. A secondary analysis identified the predictors of MIRP receipt at civilian facilities.ResultsOf 1420 patients, 247 (17.4%) transferred care. These patients were more likely to undergo MIRP (OR = 7.83, p < 0.01), and get diagnosed at low-volume military facilities (OR = 6.10, p < 0.01). Our secondary analysis demonstrated that transferring care was strongly associated with undergoing MIRP (OR = 1.51, p = 0.04).ConclusionsPatient preferences induced a demand for greater utilization of MIRP and civilian facilities. Further work exploring factors driving these preferences and interventions tailoring them, based on evidence and cost considerations, is required.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s). 2017