作者: J Robert Beck , Michael W Kattan , Brian J Miles , None
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(17)32409-6
关键词: Decision analysis 、 Surgery 、 Intensive care medicine 、 Outcomes research 、 Watchful waiting 、 Decision tree 、 Life expectancy 、 Medicine 、 Prostate cancer 、 Brachytherapy 、 Prostatectomy 、 Urology
摘要: AbstractThe question of when to choose surgery over watchful waiting for treatment clinically localized prostate cancer is difficult. Recently, the Prostate Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) published a decision analysis that promoted as reasonable alternative invasive many men with prostatic carcinoma. Criticisms were leveled at itself, its structure, and especially probabilities utilities used in model.We reexamine PORT analysis. Structural sensitivity model was conducted, multi-way analyses incorporating data more recent than those The structure concluded be sound given available literature on progression. However, suggest some may understated, causing life expectancy surgical understated. Using these data, operate all gr...