Improvement of racial disparities with respect to the utilization of minimally invasive radical prostatectomy in the United States.

  • Quoc-Dien Trinh
  • Jan Schmitges
  • Maxine Sun
  • Shyam Sukumar
  • Jesse Sammon
  • Shahrokh F Shariat
  • Claudio Jeldres
  • Marco Bianchi
  • Zhe Tian
  • Paul Perrotte
  • Craig G Rogers
  • Markus Graefen
  • James O Peabody
  • Mani Menon
  • Pierre I Karakiewicz

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Abstract

Race represents an established barrier to health care access in the United States and elsewhere. We examined whether race affects the utilization rate of minimally invasive radical prostatectomy (MIRP) in a population-based sample of individuals from the United States.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number7
ISSN0008-543X
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 21898379