A Multi-modal, Physician-centered Intervention to Improve Guideline-concordant Prostate Cancer Imaging

Other illness

• Patients will be excluded if they have a history of prior malignancy

Age

• Are over the age of 85

Other

• Provider Criteria:
• Urology Residents will be excluded.
  • Patients
• Diagnosed at autopsy or by death certificate
• Died within 3 months of diagnosis
• Not having data on at least one of the following:
  • PSA
  • clinical stage
  • Gleason score

• Provider Criteria:
• Urology Chiefs and attending urologists employed through the VA (full time, part time) at one of the 10 participating sites
• Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners employed through the VA at one of the 10 participating sites that work in the respective urology clinics
• Providers may be any gender or race/ethnicity
  • Qualitative portion only:
• Urology Chiefs and/or frontline staff physicians
• participating PAs \& NPs having cared for at least 5 men with incident prostate cancer within the previous 6 months
• Patients will not be directly recruited into the study.
• The investigators have obtained a waiver of HIPAA authorization and informed consent to analyze electronic health records of patients that are diagnosed with ICD-9 code 185 or ICD-10 code C61 during the study period at the 10 participating sites.