Publications by authors named "Joseph N Macaluso"

Healthcare-associated infections, often identified as hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), are typically not present during patient contact or admission. Healthcare-associated infections cause longer lengths of stay, increasing costs and mortality. HAI occurring in trauma patients increases the risk for length of stay and higher inpatient costs.

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Background Methods to diagnose prostate cancer (PCa), a highly prevalent disease, remain inadequate in terms of accuracy, cost, and logistical constraints for both patients and providers. Early and accurate detection of PCa is crucial to patient management, most notably in increasing quality of life and lowering cost burdens when considering the associated treatment and follow-up pathways. This article aims to discuss the impact to care pathways for nine patients whose PCa was detected by a novel Food and Drug Administration-cleared low-field magnetic resonance imager (MRI) for transperineal PCa interventions but was missed by standard-of-care systematic transrectal ultrasound (TRUS).

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This paper describes the workflow of transperineal prostate biopsy (TBx) using the single-sided, low-field Promaxo MRI system (Promaxo Inc., Oakland, California, United States) operating at a field strength ranging between 58 and 74 millitesla (mT). Prostate cancer (PCa) is the leading cause of cancer-related death and the second most frequently diagnosed cancer in men.

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Purpose: Black men have the highest incidence and mortality from prostate cancer (PCa) and lower quality of life compared to other U.S. racial groups.

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Dissemination of misinformation through social media is a major societal issue. Bladder cancer is the second most common urological cancer in the world, but there are limited data on the quality of bladder cancer information on social networks. Our objective was to characterize the quality of information and presence of misinformation about bladder cancer on YouTube, the most commonly used social media platform.

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YouTube is a social media platform with more than 1 billion users and >600000 videos about prostate cancer. Two small studies examined the quality of prostate cancer videos on YouTube, but did not use validated instruments, examine user interactions, or characterize the spread of misinformation. We performed the largest, most comprehensive examination of prostate cancer information on YouTube to date, including the first 150 videos on screening and treatment.

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