The Consensus Development Program. Detecting changes in medical practice following a consensus conference on the treatment of prostate cancer.
The treatment of prostate cancer was reviewed at a U.S. National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference in June 1987. Data from the U.S. National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results tumor registries were analyzed and showed that the proportion of eligible prostate cancer patients receiving the recommended therapies did not increase at a faster rate after the conference than before.
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D000368:Aged; D015975:Consensus Development Conferences, NIH as Topic; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D006278:Medicare; D008875:Middle Aged; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D014481:United States