AIM This study seeks to improve the understanding of treatment patterns and associated health-related quality of life (HRQoL), clinical outcomes and healthcare utilization in US patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). PATIENTS & METHODS Treatment Registry for Outcomes in CRPC Patients (TRUMPET) is a US-based, prospective, observational multicenter registry (NCT02380274) inv...

SELF-CARE CUTS INAPPROPRIATE UTILIZATION A community's true primary healthcare providers are the people themselves, David S. Sobel, MD, told participants at the recent Healthcare Forum Healthier Communities Summit in Anaheim, CA. He noted that 80 percent of healthcare in the United States is self-care—for example, a person taking an analgesic for a headache rather than seeing a physician. If th...

Introduction: Golestan, a province located north of Persian Gulf in northeastern part of Iran is a well known area for high risk of esophageal cancer (EC) in the world. There is no information about healthcare utilization in populations residing in the area. This study was conducted to assess utilization of healthcare and its associated factors among esophageal cancer patients in this region as...

BACKGROUND Despite declining lengths of stay, postdischarge healthcare resource utilization may be increasing because of shifts to nonacute care settings. Although changes in hospital stay after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery have been described, patterns of discharge remain unclear. Our objective was to determine patterns of discharge disposition after CABG surgery in the United S...