The Role of a Standardized Clinical Care Pathway in Patient Satisfaction and Quality of Life Outcomes after Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy.

Introduction: Clinical care pathways reduce length of stay, variability in practice and costs, yet avoid compromising quality of care or increasing complications. In this study we describe a standardized care pathway, focusing on preoperative and postoperative education as well as immediate postoperative patient care after robotic assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy.

Methods: A standardized robotic assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy care pathway was introduced at our institution in July 2014.

The State of Prescreening Discussions About Prostate-specific Antigen Testing Following Implementation of the 2012 United States Preventive Services Task Force Statement.

Objective: To determine if the quality of prescreening discussions has changed following release of the United States Preventive Services Task Force statement against prostate cancer screening.

Methods: This cross-sectional study used the 2012 and 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys. Respondents were categorized based on the year in which they responded to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey.

Intravesical Hemostatic Clip Migration After Robotic Prostatectomy: Case Series and Review of the Literature.

Introduction: The Weck Hem-o-lok™ Ligating clip is a routinely used hemostatic tool in robotic and laparoscopic surgery. It has been the practice in our institution to use such clips for hemostasis of the vascular bundles during robotic prostatectomy. Migration of such clips has been reported in the literature as single case reports.

An unbiased prospective report of perioperative complications of robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy.

Objectives: To analyze and classified our single-institution experience with the perioperative complications associated with robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALRP).

Methods: A total of 239 patients with a mean age of 60.6 years were evaluated (January 2007 to June 2008).