2023 March - 16 articles
In 2013, the American Urological Association (AUA) set out to maximize the clinical utility of the diagnostic prostate biopsy [...]
Objective: On average, internet users aged 16 to 29 years spend 3 hours per day on social media platforms. Previous research has identified social media as an important tool for prospective applicants in the age of virtual residency interviews, but n...
Objective: To characterize academic urology Twitter presence and interaction by subspecialty designation. Methods: Using Twitter application programming interface of available data, 94 000 specific tweets were extracted for the analysis through the T...
Reno-colic fistula is very rare, representing 5.1% of uro-digestive fistulas [...]
Crowdfunding involves obtaining financial support for a project through public engagement. It is a form of crowdsourcing, where monetary and non-monetary contributions from the public are obtained for a common aim. Crowdfunding is an increasingly pop...
Michael Rochford is well known throughout the urological world for many reasons and could be regarded as a “Renaissance man” of urology [...]
The patient was a 53-year-old male who presented to Moffitt Cancer Center with a fungating lesion of the ventral penis and scrotum which was biopsy proven to be well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma, invasive into at least the lamina propria, a...
Social media usage has drastically increased in recent years. In particular, social media usage among medical providers has become commonplace. It may offer a variety of benefits in the medical arena, with respect to information dissemination, health...
Universal access to health care is a foundational principle in Canadian health care as set out by the Canada Health Act [...]
In this modern era, social media has become an integral and inevitable part of our daily lives [...]
Patient and physician–shared decision-making is an important part of the practice of urology [...]
To date, although some benefits resulting from a software-guided technique are undeniable, no clear superiority of fusion over cognitive targeted biopsy (COG-TB) has been supported by strong evidence. We discuss potential causes of trials failing to...
Social media can improve patient education but may pose risks due to misinformation. There is no consensus on categorizing types of misinformation and harm. This study aimed to categorize and quantify misinformation and resultant harm from posts on Y...
Social Media (SoMe) platforms are widely used by urologists with over 99% using SoMe and 63% of young urologists rating the influence of SoMe on knowledge acquisition as moderate to high. The urology community is abreast with the SoMe revolution in m...
Introduction: The growing adoption of social media (SoMe) by the scientific community has cemented the role of SoMe in information dissemination and engagement of academic work. The objective of this study is to evaluate the relationship between trad...
Introduction: Social media has become a prevalent platform for survey dissemination, despite the paucity of literature on this topic. The purpose of this paper is to outline the benefits and drawbacks of and best practices for social media-based surv...
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