Discriminative capacity of guideline recommendations in the assessment of patients with asymptomatic microhematuria.
Bladder cancer
Disease management
Guidelines
Microhematuria
Nomogram
Risk factors
Journal
Urologic oncology
ISSN: 1873-2496
Titre abrégé: Urol Oncol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9805460
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 2023
05 2023
Historique:
received:
21
03
2022
revised:
20
08
2022
accepted:
26
08
2022
medline:
19
5
2023
pubmed:
24
10
2022
entrez:
23
10
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Asymptomatic microhematuria (aMh) remains a diagnostic challenge in urological practice: while aMh is a risk factor of urothelial carcinoma (UC), prevalence of aMh is high. Guidelines were developed to permit risk stratification and reduce diagnostic workload. This study investigates the efficacy of several recommendations. Sixty hundred eight patients with newly diagnosed aMh without previous UC from an academic referral center (A; n = 320) and a private outpatient clinic (B; n = 288) were included. All patients underwent clinical workup including medical history, urine cytology, upper tract imaging and cystoscopy. Eleven former and current guidelines were applied to each patient individually; every patient was classified as either low risk (no further workup recommended) or high risk. Furthermore, a recently developed nomogram for hematuria assessment was included. The cohort comprised 142 females and 466 males (mean age 62 [range 18-92] years). Sixty-one patients (10.0%) were diagnosed with UC. Excluding the Swedish and recent NICE guideline generally advising against urologic workup, application of 9 other recommendations would have diagnosed all UCs and saved 1.6% to 16.1% of patients from workup. For the 2020 US guideline, solely applied to cohort B, 10.6% of patients were classified as low risk. The use of the nomogram would have saved 17.1% to 25% of patients from workup. Practical relevance of current guidelines is limited as they do not sufficiently identify patients not requiring clinical work up. Thus, guideline adherence may trigger overdiagnosis and even overtreatment. New ways of risk stratification are needed to improve aMh assessment.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE
Asymptomatic microhematuria (aMh) remains a diagnostic challenge in urological practice: while aMh is a risk factor of urothelial carcinoma (UC), prevalence of aMh is high. Guidelines were developed to permit risk stratification and reduce diagnostic workload. This study investigates the efficacy of several recommendations.
MATERIAL & METHODS
Sixty hundred eight patients with newly diagnosed aMh without previous UC from an academic referral center (A; n = 320) and a private outpatient clinic (B; n = 288) were included. All patients underwent clinical workup including medical history, urine cytology, upper tract imaging and cystoscopy. Eleven former and current guidelines were applied to each patient individually; every patient was classified as either low risk (no further workup recommended) or high risk. Furthermore, a recently developed nomogram for hematuria assessment was included.
RESULTS
The cohort comprised 142 females and 466 males (mean age 62 [range 18-92] years). Sixty-one patients (10.0%) were diagnosed with UC. Excluding the Swedish and recent NICE guideline generally advising against urologic workup, application of 9 other recommendations would have diagnosed all UCs and saved 1.6% to 16.1% of patients from workup. For the 2020 US guideline, solely applied to cohort B, 10.6% of patients were classified as low risk. The use of the nomogram would have saved 17.1% to 25% of patients from workup.
CONCLUSIONS
Practical relevance of current guidelines is limited as they do not sufficiently identify patients not requiring clinical work up. Thus, guideline adherence may trigger overdiagnosis and even overtreatment. New ways of risk stratification are needed to improve aMh assessment.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36274029
pii: S1078-1439(22)00304-0
doi: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2022.08.011
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
254.e1-254.e8Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors have no conflicts of interest within the context of this study