The Quality of Surgical Pathology Care for Men Undergoing Radical Prostatectomy in the U.S.

The article deals with a study that assessed adherence with the College of American Pathologists (CAP) radical prostatectomy (RP) practice protocol in a sample of men who underwent RP for early-stage prostate cancer in the U.S. The study subjects were chosen using the National Cancer Data Base. Composite measures and all-or-none measures of quality indicator compliance were calculated by the researchers for several analytic categories, including a broad subset of CAP category I factors.