NCT03479359

Learning Curve of Digital Rectal Examination for Prostate Cancer Among Internship

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 700 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Changhai Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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 are usually needed for internship to be performed in urological practice to obtain a stable DRE accuracy.

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 is required to perform this for patients suspected of prostate cancer or benign prostate hyperplasia. However, how many DRE are usually needed for a internship to perform so as to obtain a stable accuracy in daily practice is currently unknown. The investigators thus conduct this prospective trial to investigate the learning curve of DRE among internship.

Conditions

• Prostatic Neoplasms
• Digital Rectal Examination
• Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Routine review of DRE results by attending doctors	Let the internship regularly compare DRE result and the pathology outcome of prostate biopsy of each patient.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-02-26
• Primary completion: 2019-02-26
• Completion: 2019-02-26
• First posted: 2018-03-27
• Last updated: 2018-03-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China