title: Questionnaire survey of urologists and primary care physicians' diagnostic and treatment practices for prostatitis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To establish diagnostic and treatment practices for chronic prostatitis by survey of urologists in Wisconsin and primary care providers in Dane County, Wisconsin.
  
  
  METHODS
  All Wisconsin urologists (n = 135) and primary care providers in Dane County, Wisconsin (n = 365) were surveyed by mail with a 10-item questionnaire used to establish diagnostic and treatment practices for prostatitis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seventy-eight percent of primary caregivers consider prostatitis to be bacterial in nature, whereas 59% of urologists consider it to be noninfectious. Fewer than 50% of primary care providers consider pain to be other than perineal in the diagnosis. Fewer than 50% of urologists or primary caregivers evaluate expressed prostatic secretions and few primary care providers (11%) use nonantibiotic therapy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The diagnostic and treatment practices for prostatitis do not follow standard textbook algorithms.
authors.affiliation: Middleton Memorial Veteran's Administration Hospital and Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53792-3236, USA.
authors.forename: T D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Moon
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011472:Prostatitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014572:Urology