title: [The assessment of therapy success after radical prostatectomy].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Patient satisfaction plays an important role in the outcome quality of treatment for localized prostate carcinoma. This paper identifies factors that impact patients' assessment of therapy success one year after surgery.
  
  
  METHODS
  Patient assessment of therapy success was measured with the Hamburger Fragebogen zum Krankenhausaufenthalt (Lecher et al. 2002). Also, several sociodemographic, clinical and quality-of-life factors were tested for their impact on the patient assessment of therapy success.
  
  
  RESULTS
  25 % of patients gave a negative assessment of therapy success. Factors with the strongest impact were urinary incontinence, sexual impotence, younger age and higher risk of recidive.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Especially the prevention of urinary continence and sexual dysfunction may lead to a better assessment of therapy. Moreover, the patients' expectations have a great impact on the assessment of therapy success.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische Soziologie, Department für Psychische Gesundheit, Leipzig. norbert.koehler@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: Norbert
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Köhler
authors.forename: Lutz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gansera
authors.forename: Sigrun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Holze
authors.forename: Jens-Uwe
authors.initials: JU
authors.lastname: Stolzenburg
authors.forename: Udo
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Rebmann
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Truss
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Roth
authors.forename: Hans-Jörg
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Scholz
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fahlenkamp
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Thiel
authors.forename: Elmar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brähler
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018365:Neoplasm, Residual / Q000523:psychology; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000523:psychology; D011379:Prognosis; D011468:Prostatectomy / Q000523:psychology*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000523:psychology