To assess the accuracy of home-test use by a real-world / amateur user ..read more

To evaluate the h- and m-indices of academic urologists across all U.S. accredited urology residency programs to determine the relationship between these metrics and an author’s academic rank, academic degrees, and gender ..read more

After-hours clinical coverage models vary significantly by specialty and institution. Coverage decisions must balance quality clinical care with a safe provider workload. Here, we characterize urology resident on-call activities overnight at a multi-site academic medical center and model the expected volume of clinical activity using inpatient beds, emergency room visits and attendings covered ..read more

The authors of this study should be commended for their recognition of the paucity of literature investigating fertility treatment in both genders of Hispanic ethnicity. The authors successfully accomplished the goal of investigating the impact of Hispanic ethnicity on male factor infertility for sub-fertile men in the state of Utah. The data demonstrated that being a male of Hispanic ethnicity in Utah is associated with a reduced likelihood of live births, compounded by being less likely to seek fertility treatment ..read more

The authors should be commended for their patient centered study seeking to better understand quality of life including ability to participate in social roles and activities after ureteroscopy. A growing emphasis of clinical research focusing on patient reported outcomes provides insight into patients’ experiences of symptoms, quality of life, goals of care, and values.1 Utilizing patient reported outcomes in conditions like nephrolithiasis may help provide insight into future interventions aiming to provide improved patient centered care ..read more

To evaluate the effects of PAE and Open Simple Prostatectomy (OP) on LUTS and urodynamic parameters in subjects with prostate size > 80 cc ..read more

To assess urologist attitudes toward clinical decision support embedded into the electronic health record and define design needs to facilitate implementation and impact. With recent advances in big data and artificial intelligence, enthusiasm for personalized, data-driven tools to improve surgical decision-making has grown, but the impact of current tools remains limited ..read more

Here, Tong et al demonstrate that a high-volume expert AEEP (anatomic endoscopic enucleation of the prostate) practitioner is able to achieve favorable postoperative outcomes in Asian patients with either the MOSES™ 2.0 laser (MoLEP) or the traditional holmium laser (HoLEP). With a 1:1 single-blinded prospective randomized controlled trial and statistically similar cohorts, the authors found that MoLEP and HoLEP were largely comparable in enucleation time, enucleation efficiency, and enucleated prostate tissue amount ..read more

To assess the outcomes, total healthcare utilization, and cost savings for same-day discharge versus inpatient robotic assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) and robotic assisted radical nephrectomy (RARN ..read more

To investigates the efficacy of formalin disinfection of the needle tip in transrectal prostate biopsy (TRB) procedure to reduce infectious complications. The primary aim is to assess the impact of formalin on bacterial contamination of biopsy needle tip and its association with post-biopsy infective events ..read more