The impact of an electronic learning intervention to support appropriate antibiotic prescribing behaviour by non-medical prescribers for upper respiratory tract infections in the primary care setting: a feasibility study.

Background: Interventions are available for general practitioners to support appropriate antibiotic prescribing behaviour for common, acute, uncomplicated, self-limiting upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs). Non-medical prescribers frequently manage these conditions, but no such interventions exist for these groups. This study aimed to assess the feasibility and perceived impact of a theory-based electronic learning intervention designed to support appropriate antibiotic prescribing by non-medical prescribers for URTIs in primary care settings.

Influence of Physician-Patient Gender Congruence and Language Interpreter Services in Urology.

Objective: To examine how physician gender and language concordance impact patient satisfaction in a primarily Hispanic population.

Methods: An anonymous survey was distributed at an academic urology clinic, assessing factors influencing physician selection, comfort with physician gender, language preferences, and interpreter impact. Chi-square tests analyzed categorical variables, with significance set at P <.

Can Genomic Classifiers in Biopsy Cores With Grade Group 1 Cancer Predict Higher-Grade Disease Elsewhere in the Prostate? Results From the Prospective Miami Active Surveillance Trial.

Purpose: We investigated whether expression signatures from Grade Group (GG) 1 biopsy cores can detect the presence of higher-grade cancer elsewhere in the prostate.

Materials And Methods: We enrolled 205 men with low to favorable intermediate-risk prostate cancer undergoing active surveillance on a prospective protocol. All participants underwent MRI and confirmatory biopsy at enrollment, followed by annual biopsies for 3 more years.

Impact of varicocoelectomy on male semen parameters: A long-term analysis of sperm quality and outcomes.

Background: Varicocoeles are common in 40% of men presenting with infertility. Semen parameters including sperm motility, low sperm count and sperm morphology are altered by the presence of varicocoeles. Though varicocoelectomy has been associated with improvements in these parameters, studies on long-term outcomes are limited.

Lost to follow up: Semen analysis compliance following potential vasectomy failure.

Background: Many patients do not follow up for repeat semen analysis after potential vasectomy failure, indicating a need for strategies to enhance compliance and maximize outcomes.

Objective: To evaluate the rate of men who do not return for repeat semen analysis after suspected or confirmed vasectomy failure, defined as presence of motile or >100,000 non-motile sperm on post-vasectomy semen analysis, and investigate subsequent management.

Materials And Methods: We conducted a retrospective chart review of males aged ≥18 years old who underwent vasectomy for the first time between January 2004 and January 2024.

Changing times: trends in risk classification, tumor upstaging, and positive surgical margins after radical prostatectomy - results from a contemporary National Cancer Database study.

Purpose: Recent advancements in screening, prostate MRI, robotic surgery, and active surveillance have influenced the profile of patients undergoing radical prostatectomy (RP). We sought to examine their impact on trends in clinicodemographic, risk classification, and adverse pathology in men undergoing surgery.

Methods: We queried the National Cancer Database for clinicodemographic, risk group, and pathology data in men undergoing upfront RP between 2006 and 2020.