title: Prostate cancer. Socioeconomic status and disparities in treatment patterns.
abstract: Disparities in prostate cancer treatment patterns have been traced to differences in socioeconomic status. These results have implications for quality of care imparted by health-care providers. until randomized clinical trials establish standards of care, physicians must be wary of unconscious bias and strive to support, not dictate, the decision-making process.
authors.affiliation: Division of Urologic Surgery, Department of Surgery, and the Duke Prostate Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA. david.chu@duke.edu
authors.forename: David I
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: Stephen J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Freedland
mesh_terms: D054625:Healthcare Disparities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
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