title: [Clinical questionnaires about benign prostatic hyperplasia].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  s To assess the understanding degree of urologists for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and the clinical characteristics of BPH patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  The questionnaires was distributed to urologists and patients in 119 hospitals over the country, respectively. The urologist survey was mainly focused on the questions of BPH progression and therapeutic model. The patient survey was mainly focused on the questions of patient's age, symptom features and the preference to receiving treatment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The evaluations based on 289 completed urologist questionnaires and 4253 completed patient questionnaires showed that 98.6% of urologists agreed that BPH was a progressive disease but there were still some differences in understanding the risk factors for BPH progression. Additionally, 98.1% of patients were diagnosed to be moderate or severe BPH, nocturia was the most frequent symptom. In the treatment for BPH, both the urologists and patients concerned about how to improve the system rapidly.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study is the first questionnaires specifically to the urologists and BPH patients, the results would reflect the situations of BPH diagnosis and treatment in China and would be helpful to the development of BPH guideline.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, the First Hospital, Institute of Urology, Peking University, Beijing 100034, China. urozhang@sina.com
authors.forename: Xiang-hua
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Zhang-qun
authors.initials: ZQ
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Ze-yu
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Ying-hao
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Guang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Jian-ye
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yan-qun
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Na
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010361:Patients; D010820:Physicians; D011470:Prostatic Hyperplasia; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires