Internet Resources: Urology Research

Clinical Guidelines

• Bladder Cancer

  • Management of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

  • Screening for bladder cancer (Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination)

• General Urology

  • Medscape Urology Practice Guidelines

  • National Guideline Clearinghouse: Urologic and Male Genital Diseases

• Incontinence

  • Prompted voiding for persons with urinary incontinence

  • Surgical management of female stress urinary incontinence

  • Urinary incontinence

  • Urinary incontinence in adults: acute and chronic management

  • Urinary Incontinence in Adults, Clinical Practice Guideline Update

  • Urinary Incontinence Guideline: Real World Examples of Use

• Male Sexual Dysfunction/Infertility

• AACE clinical practice guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of male sexual dysfunction

• Diagnosis and management of infertility

• Neurological evaluation of male sexual dysfunction

• Treatment of organic erectile dysfunction

• Miscellaneous

  • Management of primary vesicoureteral reflux in children

  • Management of ureteral calculi

  • Timing of elective surgery on the genitalia of male children with particular reference to the risks, benefits, and psychological effects of surgery and anesthesia

• Prostate Cancer

  • ACS prostate cancer screening guideline: update 1997

  • Management of clinically localized prostate cancer

  • Prostate specific antigen (PSA): best practice policy

  • Relative Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Methods of Androgen Suppression in the Treatment of Advanced Prostatic Cancer

  • Screening for prostate cancer (Annals of Internal Medicine)

  • Screening for prostate cancer (Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination)

  • Screening for prostate cancer (Guide to clinical preventive services. 2nd ed. Baltimore (MD): Williams & Wilkins; 1996. 119-34)

  • Screening for prostate cancer in American men

  • Use of strontium89 in patients with endocrine-refractory carcinoma of the prostate metastatic to bone

• Renal Disease/Transplant

  • Appropriateness criteria for renal trauma

  • Dipstick proteinuria screening of asymptomatic adults to prevent progressive renal disease

• Testicular Cancer

  • Screening for testicular cancer (Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination)

  • Screening for testicular cancer (Guide to clinical preventive services. 2nd ed. Baltimore (MD): Williams & Wilkins; 1996. 153-7 [23 references])

• Urinary Tract Infection

  • Diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of the initial urinary tract infection in febrile infants and young children

  • Evidence based clinical practice guideline for patients 6 years of age or less with a first time acute urinary tract infection (UTI)

  • Prevention and Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Paralyzed Persons

  • Screening for urinary infection in asymptomatic infants and children

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Clinical Trials

• CenterWatch Clinical Trials: Nephrology/Urology

• CenterWatch Clinical Trials: Prostate Cancer

• Clinical Trials for Conditions of the Urinary Tract and Sexual Organs

• NIH Clinical Research Studies: Genitourinary System

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General Urology Research

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: Urinary system, kidneys, bladder & incontinence

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: Prostate & testicular problems

• Cochrane Library Incontinence Abstracts

• Cochrane Library Prostatic Diseases and Urologic Cancers Abstracts

• ResearchWeb: Basic Research in Urology

• Urological Sciences Research Foundation's Active Research

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