Primary care physicians (PCPs) vary as much as 10-fold when it comes to prostrate-specific antigen (PSA) screening. Researchers have not yet been able to explain why the difference between the highest ...
The authors of a new study examined whether PSA screening rates would vary substantially among primary care physicians (PCPs) and if the variance would depend on which PCP patients used. "No ...
Although no organization recommends PSA screening for men older aged 75 years and older, a large analysis of Medicare data revealed that 41% of such patients in Texas did undergo PSA screening, ...
An initiative is aimed at encouraging physicians to consider abnormal PSA values in a broader context. About two years ago, having recognized that the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) cutoff level of 4 ...
The effect of practice guidelines and the European Randomised Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC) and Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) trials on PSA screening practices of primary-care ...