title: Prostate cancer survivorship: lessons from caring for the uninsured.
abstract: Since 2001, UCLA has operated
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Improving Access, Counseling, and Treatment for Californians with Prostate Cancer (CaP). Funded by the California Department of Public Health, with a cumulative budget of over $80 million, the program provides comprehensive care for low-income, uninsured Californian men with biopsy-proven CaP. Health services research conducted with program enrollees, through the UCLA Men's Health Study, yields an opportunity to perform qualitative and quantitative assessments of patient-reported outcomes in these men, all members of historically underserved, primarily minority populations. This review summarizes data from several studies in which validated instruments were administered longitudinally in 727 participants, prospectively measuring health-related quality of life (HRQOL), self-efficacy in interactions with physician interactions, social and emotional health, symptom distress, satisfaction with care, and other patient-reported outcomes.
authors: Department of Urology, Health Services Research Group, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA. kchamie@mednet.ucla.edu
authors: Karim
authors: K
authors: Chamie
authors: Sarah E
authors: SE
authors: Connor
authors: Sally L
authors: SL
authors: Maliski
authors: Arlene
authors: A
authors: Fink
authors: Lorna
authors: L
authors: Kwan
authors: Mark S
authors: MS
authors: Litwin
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017057:Medically Uninsured / Q000523:psychology*; D011203:Poverty; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality* / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D015996:Survival Rate