ESSENTIAL EVIDENCE:

Essential Evidence for Urologists: Evidence-based Reviews from the World’s Leading Literature, a bimonthly newsletter, is an exclusive member benefit brought to you by BJU International.

Essential Evidence for Urologists are summaries of evidence-based medical research filtered from over 100 leading peer-reviewed journals graded for validity and relevance to patient outcomes. Approximately 1 in 40 eligible studies is converted into a summary and each summary is reviewed by at least 15 physicians and/or physician editors prior to publication.

A summary begins with a clinical question and then provides a bottom-line answer. This is followed by a structured abstract that includes the study design and setting, followed by a synopsis of the article. Summaries must meet three criteria:

• They address a question that we face as clinicians
• They measure outcomes that physicians and their patients care about most: symptoms, morbidity, quality of life, and mortality
• They have the potential to change clinical practice.

The summary process involves a regular review of over 100 journals and the identification of articles in those journals that are high-quality medical evidence and most clinically relevant. Structured summaries of these articles are then written and
peer-reviewed by academic physicians

Display Content by Date Published Title Comments Ascending Descending

Search Essential evidence: 

• Functional magnetic stimulation reduces mixed urinary incontinence
  Is functional magnetic stimulation effective in the treatment of mixed urinary incontinence?
• Antibiotic prophylaxis may not decrease risk of recurrent UTI in children
  Does antibiotic prophylaxis reduce the risk of recurrent urinary tract infection in children?
• Repair undescended testis before age 13
  What’s the best time to correct undescended testis?
• Tadalafil effective for benign prostatic hypertrophy
  Is tadalafil safe and effective in the treatment of benign prostatic hypertrophy?
• Ureteral stents not effective, increase symptoms
  Following treatment of ureteral stones, is stent placement safe and effective?
• Tolterodine + tamsulosin effective in men withoveractive bladder
  Is the combination of tolterodine and tamsulosin more effective than either treatment alone in the management of men with lower urinary tract symptoms and overactive bladder?
• Medications help passage of kidney stones
  Do medications help the passage of kidney stones?
• DHEA, testosterone not effective in older patients
  Do DHEA and testosterone have anti-aging properties?
• Morphine + ketorolac better for renal colic
  In adults presenting with acute renal colic to an emergency department, is the combination of morphine and ketorolac more effective then either drug given alone?
• Furosemide doesn’t prevent acute renal failure
  Is furosemide (frusemide) effective in treating or preventing acute renal failure in adults?
• Dapoxetine slightly improves premature ejaculation
  Is dapoxetine effective in treating premature ejaculation?
• Obesity does not predict survival after radical prostatectomy
  Does obesity affect clinicopathologic findings or outcomes in men undergoing radical prostatectomy?
• Urinary incontinence diagnosis with three questions
  Can a questionnaire be used to differentiate between urge and stress incontinence?
• Monitoring/tx not needed for moderate VUR in children
  In children with mild to moderate (grade I to grade III) vesicoureteral refl ux, is monitoring and antibiotic prophylaxis effective in preventing recurrent pyelonephritis?
• Saw palmetto ineffective for BPH
  Does saw palmetto improve symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia?
• Testosterone doesn’t improve QOL or cognition in men with AD
  Does testosterone improve quality of life or cognitive function in men with Alzheimer’s disease?
• Levofloxacin reduces hospitalization but not death in chemo patients
  Is prophylactic levofloxacin helpful in patients undergoing chemotherapy for malignancy?
• Routine circumcision not warranted for UTI prevention
  How effective is circumcision in the reduction of risk of urinary tract infections?
• Acupuncture improves urinary urgency
  Is specific acupuncture treatment for overactive bladder with urge incontinence more effective than placebo acupuncture treatment?
• Treating negative dipstick dysuria decreases symptoms
  In women with dysuria and frequency but a negative dipstick test result for nitrites and leukocytes, do antibiotics decrease symptoms?

Page 1, 2 Next

Click here to view archived content >>