Status:

UNKNOWN

Learning Curve of Digital Rectal Examination for Prostate Cancer Among Internship

Lead Sponsor:

Changhai Hospital

Conditions:

Prostatic Neoplasms

Digital Rectal Examination

Eligibility:

MALE

Brief Summary

The investigators conduct this prospective study to investigate the learning curve of digital rectal examination (DRE) for prostate cancer among internship. The investigators want to know how many DRE...

Detailed Description

Digital rectal examination (DRE) is a basic physical examination in routine practice in Urology. The DRE is a very important daily practice for screen prostate cancer, and each internship in Urology i...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Internship just graduate from the medical school, and agree to attend the study.
  • Internship have less than 5 DREs of prostate cancer.
  • Patients of any age who are included for prostate biopsy are eligible, the indications for prostate biopsy are as follows: PSA\>4ng/ml, fPSA/tPSA\<0.16, with suspected palpable nodes in the prostate by DRE of attending doctor, suspected mass in prostate detected by ultrasound examination, magnetic resonance imaging, or computed tomography.

Exclusion

  • Internship who are not willing to attend the study.
  • Internship stop doing DRE for continuously 3 months after entering the study.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 26 2018

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

February 26 2019

Estimated Enrollment :

700 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03479359

Start Date

February 26 2018

End Date

February 26 2019

Last Update

March 27 2018

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Changhai Hospital

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China, 200433